Truth Quotes
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Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.
Madeleine de Souvre
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Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
Baltasar Gracian
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The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.
James Ellroy
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Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."
Zephyr Teachout
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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
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You told me the truth when you said to me once, 'There's a sort of wrong that can never be made up for'.
George Eliot
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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth.
Lord Byron
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A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
John Jay Chapman
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All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.
John Stuart Blackie
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Truth is independent of facts always.
Oscar Wilde
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'Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess,' he said quietly. 'Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their conscience with the gift of survival.'Miriamele thought about the obvious truth of what Cadrach had said as they walked on, but could not understand why it made her so unutterably sad.
Tad Williams
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The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius
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What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.
Barry Moltz
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God is truth and light his shadow.
Plato
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The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Habit with him was all the test of truth,It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.
George Crabbe
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.
Bette Davis
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
Berthold Auerbach
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The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.
Beverly Engel
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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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I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
John Updike
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We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.
Dick Van Patten
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As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day