Quotes with truth

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  • Georges Bataille I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Martin Luther King I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • George Orwell I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820)
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • A. N. Wilson I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Samuel Goldwyn I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Armistead Maupin I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Abu Bakr I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Umberto Eco I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 104
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Babe Paley I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Charles Dickens I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Amy Hempel I leave a lot out when I tell the truth.
    Rick Moody (2007) 106
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ben Gibbard I once knew a girl
    In the years of my youth
    With eyes like the summer
    All beauty and truth
    In the morning I fled
    Left a note and it read
    Someday you will be loved.
    Plans Someday You Will Be Loved
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Peace Pilgrim I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Audre Lorde I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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