Truth Quotes
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I can do no more than tell the truth.
Frank McCourt
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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
Eric Maisel
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And just loving him with all her simple young heart and entirely believing in him, had made him, so completely commonplace before in all his utterances, suddenly—at least in the pulpit—sing. Was it acute, personal experience that one needed? Did one only cry out the truth really movingly when under some sort of lash, either of grief or ecstasy?
Elizabeth von Arnim
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The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
Thomas Aquinas
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You come back and you don't tell the truth to me, no more.
Pete Yorn
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Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.
Gautama Buddha
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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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Truth never perishes.
Seneca the Younger
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All I want is the truth, just give me some truth...
John Lennon The Beatles
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I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
Terry Gross
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
John Stuart Mill
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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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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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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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I am an originalist, to begin with. So, I am a constitutional conservative. I believe that the Constitution enshrines some universal ideals that make our country strong and that are consistent with truth, and so that's the basic thing.
Evan McMullin
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Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.
Barry Long
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In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.
Nikola Tesla
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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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In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
Rene Descartes
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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
Errol Morris
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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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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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