Truth Quotes
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Drug reformers need to be hyper-vigilant. I understand that when you've been oppressed so long, so thirsty for truth, that when someone comes along and gives you a sip of water, you think that they're the savior. But in that water there may be cyanide.
Carl Hart
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison
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The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!
Erik Weihenmayer
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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus Marcellinus
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Stand on your truth and what you believe in. Don't let anyone alter that because you can't build a house on weak foundation.
Andrea Hall
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Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
Anthony Marais
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Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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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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A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.
Evagrius Ponticus
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The truth is simply this: you can find a better man than I. God knows you wouldn't have to look very hard. But I don't believe you can find one who loves you more.
Courtney Milan
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There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.
Charles Dickens
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In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.
Edgar Allan Poe
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
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Atheism believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.
Joseph Lewis
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In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
John the Apostle
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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
Gautama Buddha
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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
George Bernard Shaw
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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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As an actor, when you're winning the moment over, there's a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself.
Eda LeShan
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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.
Alfie Kohn