Truth Quotes
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I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.
Alison Goodman
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
William Faulkner
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Inspiration is incompatible with selfish desire. Whoever wants something for himself sets truth aside. Such aims can only degrade work.
Antonin Sertillanges
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We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.
Judd Rose
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In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take.
Ali Smith
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I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.
Charles Richet
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A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.
Epictetus
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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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Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
Randy Alcorn
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner
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Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.
Steve Wynn
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“Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
Hypatia
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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
Hermann Hesse
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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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Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
Blaise Pascal
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I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real.
Clark Gable
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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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Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
Ivar Giaever
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Truth - is as old as God-.
Emily Dickinson
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
William James
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[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.
G. Edward Griffin
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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
William Lloyd Garrison
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It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
Steven Biko
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
Scott Westerfeld