Truth Quotes
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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.
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One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.
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Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.
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I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.
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All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.
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The Bible is the fountain of truth.
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One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.
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Where secrecy is known to exist one can never be absolutely sure that he knows the complete truth.
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But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
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I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.
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Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.
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This duel of consideration for one another that they had conducted for the last sixteen years involved shifting the truth about between them or withholding it altogether and was called good manners or affection, supposed to smooth the humdrum or prickly path of everyday married life. Its tyranny was apparent to neither.
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I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.
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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
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An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
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The only atheism is the denial of truth.
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Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.
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Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
