Truth Quotes
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They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
Gerald Massey
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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 plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Beth Revis
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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Charles A. Dana
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I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.
Michael Jackson
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Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.
Nikola Tesla
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The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.
Eliza Griswold
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Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
Gautama Buddha
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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 meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
Georges Bernanos
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The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness.
Brennan Manning
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There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.
Robert De Niro
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Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.
William Macneile Dixon
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If there is no truth, there is no injustice.
Norman Geras
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It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
Blaise Pascal
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If there were no belief in god, if such a truth were ever realized, then their would be no fear of consequence. Stop for a moment and imagine what this world would be like without consequence and fear. Imagine what we could, what we would do. I dare not think of such a nightmare for it could only be born in pain.
Eddie Russo
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The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.
William Howard Taft
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?
Athol Fugard
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Let me put it this way: if 'The Godfather' hadn't been made, 'Sarkaar' wouldn't have been made. That is the truth.
Ram Gopal Varma
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe