Truth Quotes
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An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.
Thomas Aquinas -
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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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
Confucius -
Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.
Hannah Arendt -
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Sallust -
When I got my start, I kind of got my big break with The Princess Diaries and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: "Did you always want to be a princess growing up?" And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman. And I think a lot of women feel that way. And the fact that I am actually her is such a dream come true. It's such a pinch me moment. And the fact that I am Catwoman in Chris Nolan's Gotham to Christian Bale's Batman is unbelievably cool.
Anne Hathaway -
Poetry's object is truth.
Christine de Pizan -
Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.
Lao Tzu
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Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
William of Conches -
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
Benjamin Peirce -
Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you
Ed Roland -
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
Jet Li -
We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.
Barack Obama -
I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
Ken Livingstone
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The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
William Cowper -
Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
Chapman Cohen -
Sacrifice life to truth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.
D. A. Carson -
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
Charles D. Broad
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
William James -
'… the situation was still too delicate for complete candor and the ultimate truth too unformed for statement.'
Dean Acheson -
The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.
Bella Bathurst