Truth Quotes
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Henrik Ibsen
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
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Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won’t be distracted by nuance or even truth.
Ed Stetzer
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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.
Carol Grace
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For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
Nikola Tesla
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In the world of President Trump, we really want people who aren't going to lie. We want people who can sit in front of a congressional committee for hours and, however mad they may make us, never give us reason to doubt that they are telling the truth as they see it.
Benjamin Wittes
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot
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Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
Mahatma Gandhi
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And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
William Cowper
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Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
Albert Camus
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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
Georges Bernanos
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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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After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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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Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
Cesare Pavese
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Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.
Epictetus
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Mere negations give all advantage to superstition; error seems wisdom and wealth when truth is silent.
George Holyoake
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It is one thing to process memories of trauma, but it is an entirely different matter to confront the inner void—the holes in the soul that result from not having been wanted, not having been seen, and not having been allowed to speak the truth.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.
Mary Karr
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
Seneca the Younger