Truth Quotes
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Victory cannot tolerate truth.
Nachman of Breslov
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From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
Albert Camus
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The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His winding-sheet; He ascends into the heavens, but the heavens cannot contain Him. He still lives--in the church which burns unconsumed with His love; in the truth that reflects His image; in the hearts which burn as He talks with them by the way.
Edward Thomson
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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
Jeanette Winterson
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is a way to tell the truth about you without you; it's just a lot more work.
David Fahrenthold
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I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.
E. O. Wilson
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The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
George Tenet
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It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.
John Stuart Mill
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Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.
Eliza Lynn Linton
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Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
Matthew Prior
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The truth is, for me, when I was a young black girl who knew I was different, was watching TV, I would always be staring at the TV set looking for myself, and I didn't see me. And when you don't see yourself, you start to think that you don't matter, or you start to think that something is wrong with you.
Lena Waithe
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Never break faith with the truth.
George Tenet
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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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The poets are wrong of course. But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
William Faulkner
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Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
N.D. Wilson
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
William James
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This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
Rumi
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The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
Rumi
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Even as Jews and Christians profoundly disagree about the truth, they are united in the belief that there is a truth to be sought.
Meir Soloveichik
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I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings - of what? Of the truth, for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes, have seen it in all its glory.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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For me, I want to find the truth in the word and the character and the line.
Phyllis Smith