Truth Quotes
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America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.
Nathanael Greene
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Simple is the language of truth.
Seneca the Younger
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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
Emily Dickinson
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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.
Anna Godbersen
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Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.
Eva LaRue
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An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
William James
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
Doris Lessing
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In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.
Michel Foucault
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Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Sydney Smith
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This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.
Muhammad Ali
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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
Kabir
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Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
Ada Velez
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Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.
William Butler Yeats
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And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.
Rich Mullins
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I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.
Reed Morano
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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
William Faulkner
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War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
Gautama Buddha
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Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.
George Lillo
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Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
Jerry Bridges
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I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.
Kevin O'Leary