Quote by Rebecca West
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. – Rebecca West

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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. – Rebecca West

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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. – Rebecca West

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S. Truman

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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – Susan Sontag

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Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. – Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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