Truth Quotes
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Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.
Haruki Murakami
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We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
Rudyard Kipling
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Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.
Christina Stead
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Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.
William Dean Howells
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Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
Silas Weir Mitchell
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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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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
John Ruskin
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"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
Judy Blume
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I think that what you’ve got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.
Burt Glinn
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All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
Errol Morris
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A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
Rudyard Kipling
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Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.
Nathanael Emmons
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The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.
Harry Crews
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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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Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Miguel de Cervantes
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When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?
Brady Quinn
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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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The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.
Esther M. Friesner
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Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.
Brad Warner