Truth Quotes
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Khalil Gibran
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Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
David Whyte
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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it. And besides, I have lived with liars so long that I have lost the tune, & a fact jars upon me like a discord.
Mark Twain
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Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.
Faith Hill
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I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
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I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn
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Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.
Henry David Thoreau
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The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born
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Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
Bill Jay
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Truth mandates our highest allegiance though it should never be a barrier to kindness.
William Craig Zwick
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If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
Penn Jillette
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In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of crimes often become social outcasts for life, finding it difficult or impossible to rent an apartment, get a job, adopt children, access public benefits, serve on juries, or vote.
James Forman, Jr.
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If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.
Ken Jeong
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
Plato
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[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.
Jay-Z
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Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
John Milton
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The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.
Laurieann Gibson
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Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.
Errol Morris
