Truth Quotes
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln
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There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou -
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein -
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde -
True honor is attained by teaching our minds to recognize truth, and training our hearts to love it.
Apolinario Mabini -
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
William Sloane Coffin
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
Oscar Wilde -
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir -
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
Aristotle -
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone -
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Mark Twain
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso -
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
Nikola Tesla -
The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances-of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.
H. L. Mencken -
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
Albert Einstein -
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch -
The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.
Albert Einstein -
Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
Oscar Wilde -
Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
Mahatma Gandhi