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Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Best Quotes about Truth

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.