Truth Quotes
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Truth - is as old as God-.
Emily Dickinson
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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
Richard Whately
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I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
John Hodgman
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
Victor Hugo
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By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.
Gautama Buddha
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I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
Cynthia Kenyon
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Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.
William Peter Hamilton
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I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
Bonnie Raitt
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They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
Gautama Buddha
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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
William James
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Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.
Tom Shadyac
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
Alexandre Dumas
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Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.
Diane Ackerman
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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
Baruch Spinoza
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There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
Tom Stoppard
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I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
John Calvin
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Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
William Faulkner
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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovern
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When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.
Nicole Kidman
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When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.
Madeleine de Souvre
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'You are certain you can keep the truth from her?' 'Sure,' Ed said confidently. 'I know I can.' 'All right.' The Old Man nodded slowly. 'I will send you back. But you must tell no one.' He swelled visibly. 'Remember: you will eventually come back to me - everyone does, in the end - and your fate will not be enviable.'
Philip K. Dick
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I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down.
Jay-Z
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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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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
R. D. Laing