Truth Quotes
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.
Maz Jobrani
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Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
Charles William Eliot
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen
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Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.
Stevie Wonder
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By deciding to live our lives based on solid values and unwavering truth, we can leave a legacy for the young men and boys who want nothing more than to follow in our footsteps.
Benjamin Watson
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The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
Mikhail Bulgakov
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The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.
Elizabeth Fry
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Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.
Arnaud Desplechin
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One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.
James Lovelock
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I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.
Matt Roper
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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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We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
Okakura Kakuzo
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I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
Andrew Wyeth
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When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.
Saint Augustine
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Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.
David F. Wells
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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
Honore de Balzac
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Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
Chuck Klosterman
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The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.
H. L. Mencken
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You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.
Josh Peck
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If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
Phillip E. Johnson
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
William Shakespeare
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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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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing