Quotes with truth

Quotes 101 till 120 of 1024.

  • William Mathews All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All necessary truth is its own evidence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alan Dershowitz All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • David Mamet Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Alan Dundes Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Karl Kraus An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anthony Trollope An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Boris Becker An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Shailer Mathews An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
    Shailer Mathews
    American theologian (1863 - 1941)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Kahlil Gibran An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • William Hazlitt An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Aldous Huxley An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Buck Owens And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Alexander Pope And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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