Truth Quotes
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It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
Emil Cioran
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We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!
Simone de Beauvoir
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
George Bernard Shaw
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
Bernard Berenson
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I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
Abraham Lincoln
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The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.
Emanuel Cleaver
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For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.
Lysander Spooner
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Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.
Madeleine de Souvre
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
Alan Paton
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I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.
Muhammad Ali
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Greatest victory which we desire, is to defeat truth and Lo! Truth is undefeated.
Aftab Alam
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The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.
Donald Miller
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When you cross any border there is always an uneasy moment when you feel yourself automatically an enemy. Artists don’t belong to any group or country... When you are living the truth, the world no longer exists, events become unimportant. But the way of truth is not easy.. ..if you are on the side of truth, you have no power. That’s why you are always defeated. The power, all the power, is on the side of the world.. .I have been completely absorbed in my adventure. No country, no family, no ties. I didn’t exist anymore. I just had to press on.
Bram van Velde
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
Lloyd Alexander
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'You speak truth,' said Themistocles; 'I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphus; nor you, had you been of Athens'.
Plutarch
