Truth Quotes
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Anything more than the truth would be too much.
Robert Frost
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It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
Soren Kierkegaard
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It's as easy to utter lies as truth.
Agatha Christie
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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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And took for truth the test of ridicule.
George Crabbe
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
William R. Alger
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The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
Amy Poehler
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.
H. L. Mencken
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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
Abraham Lincoln
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Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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He the writer must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers.
William Faulkner
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She was the purest, biggest truth.
Brenna Yovanoff
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I think overall we were rusty. But the truth of the matter is if we don't know what time it is, it's time to play.
C. Vivian Stringer
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Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds.
John Stuart Mill
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell
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When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.
Andrea Riseborough
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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
Walker Percy
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The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.
Charlize Theron
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
Jane Austen
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When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.
Ben Elliot