Truth Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Mark Twain
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| Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. |
| - Matthew Arnold |
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| I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. |
| - Simone de Beauvoir |
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| As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. |
| - Josh Billings |
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| 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. |
| - William Blake |
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| The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. |
| - Niels Bohr |
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| Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. |
| - Jim Davis |
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| We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. |
| - Denis Diderot |
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| Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found. |
| - W. MacNeile Dixon |
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| How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? |
| - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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| God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| 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 reëstablish the truth. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| There is no truth. There is only perception. |
| - Gustave Flaubert |
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| There is no god higher than truth. |
| - Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' |
| - Kahlil Gibran |
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| Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. |
| - André Gide |
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| 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. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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| The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. |
| - William James |
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| It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone. |
| - Robert Kiyosaki |
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| I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. |
| - Alphonse de Lamartine |
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| Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth? It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth? I wonder. |
| - Jeff Melvoin |
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| My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Truth breeds hatred. |
| - Bias of Priene |
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| When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it. |
| - French Proverb |
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| There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. |
| - Agnes Repplier |
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| Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. |
| - Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. |
| - Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. |
| - Dame Edith Sitwell |
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| We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. |
| - Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
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| Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. |
| - Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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| The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. |
| - Tom Stoppard |
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| Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Love truth, and pardon error. |
| - Voltaire |
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| The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. |
| - Rebecca West |
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| It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| The truth is rarely pure and never simple. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| The truth is more important than the facts. |
| - Frank Lloyd Wright |
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