Truth Quotes
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There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
Peter Berg
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
John Lancaster Spalding
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The truth never wears out.
William Michael Griffin Jr.
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O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.
John Arbuthnot
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Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
J. D. Greear
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
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As you step into your limitless self, you might be confronted with old habits and patterns that are not necessarily based in truth. These old ways of being show up because you have repeated many of them thousands of times.
Debbie Ford
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
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The best lies were always mixed with truth.
Sarah J. Maas
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In time the truth will come out, I will be cleared.
Louise Woodward
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We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
Benjamin Jowett
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We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.
Mary Calderone
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Duende I can't remember her name. It's not as though I've been in bed with that many women. The truth is I can't even remember her face. I kind of know how strong her thighs were, and her beauty. But what I won't forget is the way she tore open the barbecued chicken with her hands, and wiped the grease on her breasts.
Jack Gilbert
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Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.
Tanith Lee
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All truth is very ordinary.
Brian Perkins
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I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.
Adolfo Cambiaso
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A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'
Anthony de Mello
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The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.
Karrine Steffans
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
William James
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It's so deeply disturbing to me that half of the eligible voters don't vote in this country. We talk about how divided the country is. The truth is, we don't even know. We just know what the half that voted thought.
Christie Hefner
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The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.
Claudio Monteverdi