Truth Quotes
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Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The truth is, no one is like Columbo.
Peter Falk
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When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The record of the race, hitherto accepted as the truth about ourselves, has been the story of facts and conditions as the male saw them – or wished to see them. . . . No secret has been so well-kept as the secret of what women have thought about life.
Elizabeth Bisland
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
Seneca the Younger
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I certainly didn't tell nobody anything about what the doctors were doing and what they were finding. I didn't even know what they were finding. All I knew is that I was healthy and I was waiting and hoping that the truth would eventually come out like it's finally doing.
Eddy Curry
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Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
Ernst Toller
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The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.
Nicole Kidman
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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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Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.
George Lillo
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ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
Ernest Holmes
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Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Of course now we know that couldn't be further from the truth, that the subjects that keep young people's options open and unlock doors to all sorts of careers are the Stem subjects.
Nicky Morgan
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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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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
Herbert Spencer
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'A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.'
Dashiell Hammett
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Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
Ada Velez
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An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
William James
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Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
Rene Descartes
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To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
Thomas Carlyle
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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.
William Wordsworth