Truth Quotes
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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…
— Hannah Arendt
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling…
— Pietro Aretino
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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
— Pietro Aretino
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
— Aristotle
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
— Aristotle
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
— Isaac Asimov
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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
— Mary Astell
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons;…
— Mary Astell
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an…
— Mary Astell
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So,…
— Lee Atwater
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that…
— Margaret Atwood
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
— Saint Augustine
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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