Truth Quotes
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
George Bernard Shaw
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The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.
Jostein Gaarder
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The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!
Erik Weihenmayer
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Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.
Bob Enyart
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History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
Simon Schama
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The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.
Keith Ablow
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
Seneca the Younger
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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
Hector Hugh Munro
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This is aeons older than you or your family. Older than the town. Blood makes the sun shine and the crops grow. This is the truth of the world. Fuck the world. I just want my sister back.
Brenna Yovanoff
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Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
Studs Terkel
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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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Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
Francis Chan
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
Anthony Trollope
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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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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
John Milton
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Withholding the truth is lying.
Nnedi Okorafor
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We have to be prepared and willing to discover what is true even at the cost of our comfort. For real security always lies on the side of truth, not on the side of comfort.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
Gautama Buddha
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
Thomas Carlyle
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Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
William Shakespeare
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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