Truth Quotes
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After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
Gautama Buddha
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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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When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.
Bob Enyart
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An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
William James
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Truth never perishes.
Seneca the Younger
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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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People want a little excitement. I tell the truth, but I do it theatrically.
Mike Cernovich
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This perception that I'm negative toward Peyton and I don't appreciate the things he did is so far from the truth.
Jim Irsay
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The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
Bart Ehrman
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My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.
William Butler Yeats
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As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.
Michael Jackson
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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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The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing
Susan Howatch
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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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
Alexandre Dumas
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Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
Ally Carter
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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.
George Spencer-Brown
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
Emanuel Lasker
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Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.
John Calvin
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Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
Jonathan Swift
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The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.
Catherine the Great