Truth Quotes
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“Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
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The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.
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No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
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The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.
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These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.
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You've got to tell the truth, ... And if you don't tell the truth, then everything else you say goes into question.
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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering.
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Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between human and not, the means by which we learn. And while people use words to teach, to express art, to proclaim truths, at the most basic level, people use words to simply say: I am here.
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The opposite of a truth, is a falsehood; but the opposite of a profound truth...may be another profound truth. It either is or is not August...if I assert it's August when it isn't--simply false; but if I say that life is pain, that is true, profoundly so; so, too, that life is joy; the more profound the statement, the more reversible the deep truths are sedimented in syntax, the terms can be reversed...
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The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.
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In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
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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.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.
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I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.
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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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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
