Sentences with phrase «containing elements of truth»

She'll turn up at odd points and say things, a bit cryptic but possibly containing elements of truth.

She'll turn up at odd points and say things, a bit cryptic but possibly containing elements of truth.

As a serial entrepreneur, I've found that both of these perspectives contain an element of truth.

The point is that when individuals from opposite sides of the political spectrum come to a similar conclusion, then chances are that conclusion contains an element of truth.

As in all biting humor it contains an element of truth.

I do believe that Christ is the only way to eternal life, and I also believe that all religions and philosophies contain elements of truth.

Let's be frank, Mein Kampf contains elements of truth and morality.

I ask you now not to forget this notion; for although most philosophers seem either to forget it or to disdain it too much ever to mention it, I believe that we shall have to admit it ourselves in the end as containing an element of truth.

The authors, archaeologists, argue that myths contain elements of truth about the natural world and that we can use them as artifacts of sorts.

Like many other stereotypes, each of these contains an element of truth that reflects an emphasis on different moral values.

We have seen tribalism from the «realists,» no doubt, for which your description contains elements of truth, IMO.

We can never be sure, he contends, that a silenced opinion does not contain some element of the truth.

But to the extent it contains an element of truth, it suggests the significance for lawyers who wish to avoid ethical trouble of ensuring that they are in a position where the legal and ethical significance of situations will not be obscured.

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That's too bad that he was taken off the air, because his commentary contains important elements of truth.

Thomas Merton whom nobody could accuse of reactionary views, maintained, «The reason heresies have to be condemned is that they contain elements which resemble the truth and therefore lead well - meaning Christians into error.»

The reason for its persistence is probably that it does contain one element of truth, namely, that religion is indeed concerned with each person's relationship with God, with what that person does with his or her «solitariness,» as Whitehead put it when stressing the necessity for each human being to come to terms with God.

Of course, if one were to come to trust in one's own progress rather than in God, all would be lost, but that is simply to say that true progress in the Christian life always contains an element of self - forgetfulness, a truth known to the saints of every agOf course, if one were to come to trust in one's own progress rather than in God, all would be lost, but that is simply to say that true progress in the Christian life always contains an element of self - forgetfulness, a truth known to the saints of every agof self - forgetfulness, a truth known to the saints of every agof every age.

Although (14) is presumably a necessary metaphysical truth, it contains a contingent element, we might say; namely, reference to V, the contingent cosmos consisting of all past, present, and future happenings.

are funny because of the element of truth they contain.