Truth Quotes
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The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.
C. Wright Mills
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I shall pursue a straight forward course deviating neither to the right or left so that comes what may I hope my real friends will never have to blush for me, so far as truth, honesty & fair dealings are concerned.
Zachary Taylor
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So poisonousAre the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet’s metaphors,Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day.
Wallace Stevens
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Desiderius Erasmus
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The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.
Adrian Rogers
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'I’ll tell you,' she said softly. 'But you won’t like it.'He looked away from her. 'I asked for the truth. Whether I like it or not, I have to know.'
Octavia E. Butler
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I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
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For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes.
Andrea Anders
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The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The emperor endows the church handsomely, helps it in all that it does, aids it in its 'mission.' The church supports the emperor’s legitimacy and assures him that he is God’s representative on earth.
Jacques Ellul
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The meaning of religious truth is hope.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.
Jessica Lynch
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Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.
Chrisette Michele Payne
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All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
Ric Keller
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I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Albert Finney
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
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It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
Jordin Sparks
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Seek truth from facts.
Deng Xiaoping
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It is not worth while to consider whether a truth be useful-it is enough that it is a truth.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
Lucille Clifton
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... the final judge was truth -- immortal.
Eleanor Dark
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We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
John Milton