Quotes with truth

  • Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...
  • Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
  • It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
  • Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
  • I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
  • Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
  • I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
  • The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
  • One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
  • We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
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  • W. Clement Stone Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • William Arthur Ward Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Cato the Elder Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aesop Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Hannah Arendt The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Albert Einstein Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sir John Lubbock In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Frank Zappa Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Louis Aragon Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • George Orwell No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Maya Angelou A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Iris Murdoch A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Georges Bataille A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Winston Churchill A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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