Truth Quotes
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
Joanne Rowling
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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These teachings have been sent to explain the truth as Jesus intended it to be known in the world - not to give a new Christianity, but to give the real Christ-teaching: how to become like Christ, how to resurrect the Eternal Christ within one's Self...
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
Andrei Platonov
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The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.
Austin Farrer
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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
Alice Duer Miller
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I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.
Og Mandino
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So he believes. The truth may be more...complex.
Clive Barker
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The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
Alastair Campbell
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I like to think in an emergency situation, I'd act in a really brave way. But the truth is if I ever did get in a situation that looked remotely dangerous, I'd fall on my knees and start crying.
Daniel Rigby
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
Barry Eisler
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The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.
Bill Vaughan
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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
George Bancroft
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The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.
Paul Theroux
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The Reverend Pullman sat on the opposite side of the bench, wearing clerical garb and one of those unctuous smiles that proclaims a monopoly on truth.
Jack McDevitt
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Sometimes when people talk, they don't always tell the truth.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.
Lily James
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As one of the first African-Americans to be out on a reality program, MTV's 'The Real World: Philadelphia,' I understand the courage it takes to live your truth on a national platform, the importance it holds to LGBT communities of color, and the power it has to create a greater conversation within American culture.
Karamo Brown
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Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
Farley Mowat
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Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
R. C. Sproul
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Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
James Hutton