Truth Quotes
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Joy from truth's own glass of fireSweetly on the searcher smiles;Lest on virtue's steeps he tire,Joy the tedious path beguiles.High on faith's bright hill before us,See her banner proudly wave!Joy, too, swells the angels' chorus,- Bursts the bondage of the grave!
Friedrich Schiller
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The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Walter Scott
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Our stubbornness is right, because we want to preserve the liberty which we have in Christ. Only by preserving our liberty shall we be able to retain the truth of the Gospel inviolate.
Martin Luther
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Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.
Karen Gillan
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
Saint Basil
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If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.
David Frum
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On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
Anthony Quinn
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Men who content themselves with the semblance of truth, and a display of words, talk much of our obligations to Great Britain for protection. Had she a single eye to our advantage? A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.
Samuel Adams
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The truth of why I used to listen to Arrested Development on my Walkman was because if I didn't, it would take me 20 minutes to walk to school. If I did, it took me 15. That's the reason I loved it. I just had more of a kick in my step, more of a bounce, so I'd walk quicker.
James Corden
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Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
Dan Shechtman
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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
Aristotle
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Anthony Hope
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Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.
Samuel Pepys
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
H. L. Mencken
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The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.
Albert Einstein
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Samuel Butler
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I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups-(a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
Mary Beth Patterson
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen
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I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
Orson Scott Card
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My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.
Harry S Truman
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My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'
Pink
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No farther will I travel: once again My brethren I will see, and that fair plain Where I and song were born. There fresh-voiced youth Will pour my strains with all the early truth Which now abides not in my voice and hands, But only in the soul, the will that stands Helpless to move. My tribe remembering Will cry, ''Tis he!' and run to greet me, welcoming.
George Eliot