Truth Quotes

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No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. — Paulo Coelho
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. — Alan Cohen
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at… — Peter Abelard
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. — Peter Abelard
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
True humility is contentment. — Henri Frederic Amiel
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. — Maya Angelou
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he… — Maya Angelou
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. — Maya Angelou
All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy… — Maya Angelou
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who… — Antisthenes
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. — Antisthenes
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as… — Thomas Aquinas
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,… — Louis Aragon
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. — Joan of Arc

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