Truth Quotes
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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
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The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
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Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.
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You must have respect for those who tell you the truth about you, no matter how hard it is.
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I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.
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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.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
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He was so disrespectful that it was believed that he spoke truth.
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The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
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Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.
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The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean.
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Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are tell the truth, stop waiting to be rescued, and give away what you want the most.
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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.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
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The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.
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Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
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The only atheism is the denial of truth.
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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The opposite of every truth is just as true.
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I want so badly to tell Her it’s going to be all right, that I’ll leave the band and forget this silly crusade. I want to tell Her that I am ready to settle for this life, that she is all I will ever need in the world, and that we’ll never be apart. I want to tell Her that I will protect Her forever. But none of that would be the truth. So I don’t say anything at all.
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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.