Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

  

  B. C. Forbes
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• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
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• Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

  

  Edmond Rostand
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• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  

  Dan Simmons
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• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
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  • Joy

• It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

  

  Zadie Smith
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  • Book
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• If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

  

  Lance Ito
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• The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
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  • Kiss

• Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
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• Speaking up for the truth isn't always easy. It takes courage, but it's necessary.

  

  Amber Valletta
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  • Courage

• All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.

  

  Gautama Buddha
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• History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
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• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Mouth