Truths Quotes
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The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
John Stuart Mill -
One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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I began to be quite outrageous, and told him all I conceived of him; uttering several bold truths, not in the least to the advantage of his character.
Charlotte Charke -
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Thomas Aquinas -
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE -
There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.
Nicholas Biddle -
I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.
Conn Iggulden -
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
Victor Hugo
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Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.
Anne Hathaway -
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough -
There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.
Densey Clyne -
Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
Marcel Proust
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Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah Berlin -
There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.
Adolf Hitler -
We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.
Anne Bogart -
The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.
Wendy Kaminer
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It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.
John Stuart Mill -
Mama, did you teach me to be honest, to keep my integrity no matter what? Why did you tell me that bad truths were better than good lies?
Ella Leya -
Paradoxes are the only truths.
George Bernard Shaw -
I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it's really not my job to try to state hard truths. I'm not out to say this is what truth is, this is what's false, this is reality, this is not reality. What I prefer is to try to create a space where truth can move.
Denison Witmer