Truth Quotes
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And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
William Shakespeare
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Truth, like love, is never absolute.
E. Lynn Harris
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You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.
Matt Besser
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We need to be able to set all of the voices aside, and then go to the still, small voice and say, "Show me the truth of this situation."
Echo Bodine
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Truth serves only its slaves.
Antonin Sertillanges
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I want to share knowledge about things I've learned over the years with a younger generation that is seeking the truth.
Hannah Bronfman
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You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.
Athol Fugard
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The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.
Soren Kierkegaard
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You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
Donald Sutherland
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We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.
Lesli Linka Glatter
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I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.
Peter Morgan
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We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements... We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.
Cyril Ramaphosa
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Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
William James
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The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity.
C. I. Scofield
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If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth.
James Hal Cone
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
Francis Bacon
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Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.
Saint Augustine
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Ludwig Borne
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The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.
Dylan Moran
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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
C. S. Lewis
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My job is not to be liked. My job is to tell the truth.
Jake Tapper
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Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.
Karl Popper