Truth Quotes
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There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Cary
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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Jean de la Bruyere
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When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deviated from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.
Oliver Cowdery
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From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
Albert Camus
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Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.
Blaise Pascal
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
Marie Brennan
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I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.
Future
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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
Lao Tzu
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The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.
John McCain
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I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.
Drake
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
Moliere
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After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?
Mark McGwire
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William Faulkner
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It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.
Flannery O'Connor
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God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?
John Milton
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise Pascal
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The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
Albert Camus
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Some people are antagonized by the truth.
Julia Roberts
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Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.
C. S. Lewis
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If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.
Friedrich Nietzsche