Truth Quotes
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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
Jon Foreman
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The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.
Oprah Winfrey
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To add to truth distracts from it.
Alex Toth
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The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.
Epictetus
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Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.
Charles Sprague Sargent
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Because if you didn’t speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.
Pat Cadigan
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Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.
Alix Ohlin
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Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.
Elissa Schappell
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Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'
William James
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Our career is not something that we go out and *find.* Your perfect career is something that emerges from deep within you. When you are aligned with the truth within yourself, then you magnetize people and circumstances which align with that truth.
Marianne Williamson
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I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
Elia Suleiman
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Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.
Anna Kamienska
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In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.
Benny Carter
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We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.
John Malkovich
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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
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If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
Harry S Truman
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Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.
Peter Drucker
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A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of humanity. . .
Benjamin Rush
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Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".
Diogenes
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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
Lao Tzu
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To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
Eugene O'Neill
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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
Saint Augustine