Truth Quotes
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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
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Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.
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Everything was believed except the truth.
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As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.
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I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.
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He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
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To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
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Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.
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You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.
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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
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Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
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After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.
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Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.
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The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
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Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
