Truth Quotes
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
Harold Pinter
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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
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A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.
Ai Weiwei
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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
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Death offers mankind a full view of truth.
Socrates
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
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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
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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
Walt Whitman
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
E. M. Forster
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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
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The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Albert Camus
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The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.
Mary Gaitskill
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
Hermann Hesse
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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The dignity of truth is lost With much protesting.
Ben Jonson
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis
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The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
Brené Brown
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Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.
Cleo Moore
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
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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 truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.
H. L. Mencken
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
Saffron Burrows
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Warren Bennis