Quotes on truth
Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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François Rabelais Quotes
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
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Werner Heisenberg Quotes
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.
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W. MacNeile Dixon Quotes
People always think something's all true.
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J. D. Salinger Quotes
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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Denis Diderot Quotes
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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William Blake Quotes
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
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Rebecca West Quotes
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
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Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
Truth breeds hatred.
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Bias of Priene Quotes
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
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William James Quotes
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Leo Tolstoy Quotes
When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.
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French Proverb Quotes
Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.
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Shoseki Quotes
I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to re-establish the truth.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.
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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
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Jim Davis Quotes
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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Ramana Maharshi Quotes
If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
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Stopford Brooke Quotes
Truth is a great flirt.
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Franz Liszt Quotes
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.
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Peter Altenberg Quotes
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Gustave Flaubert Quotes
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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Anaïs Nin Quotes
As scarce as the truth is, the supply is always greater than the demand.
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Josh Billings Quotes