Truth Quotes
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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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You come back and you don't tell the truth to me, no more.
Pete Yorn
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People want a little excitement. I tell the truth, but I do it theatrically.
Mike Cernovich
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The world stood pinned on two thorns. One was ugliness. One was beauty. The truth did not lie in the middle or at either extreme. The truth encompassed both.
Elizabeth Bear
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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
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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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Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs?
Noah Cicero
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
Thomas Carlyle
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
Albert Camus
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Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.
Gautama Buddha
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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.
Steven Sinofsky
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Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.
Casey Neistat
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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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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 pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
Errol Morris
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It's all very well to say that everyone is beautiful just the way they are, but the truth is that sometimes I feel fat and ugly and I want to hide away forever.
Brigid Lowry
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What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?
Brenda Shaughnessy
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I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.
Eugene Delacroix
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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
Harry Frankfurt
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The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
Thomas Sowell
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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
Jonathan Swift
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Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.
Sue Monk Kidd