Truth Quotes
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In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.
Edward J. Fraughton
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne
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No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.
Blaise Pascal
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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
Lao Tzu
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They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
Ethan A. Hitchcock
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Why do TEMPLES beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.
Neill F. Marriott
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Death is a mighty, universal truth.
Charles Dickens
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The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.
David Rosenfelt
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Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles—that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth—born of experience—is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.
Alex Kozinski
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I remember you said, ‘The truth should hurt. Truth should knock you on your butt. Lies make it easy to stand.
Charlie Jane Anders
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But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.
Bill Clinton
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Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
William Penn
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The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now.
Wilfred Grenfell
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The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.
Keith Ablow
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Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
Ashok K. Banker
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Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
Michel Foucault
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I speak the truth, and everybody else knows it.
Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
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The truth is, the plans God has for you are always bigger than you are, and they are never going to be something you can pull off easily and in your own strength.
Brian Houston
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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
Erroll Garner
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The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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No truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
Winifred Holtby