Truth Quotes

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Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry. — David Riesman
So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long… — Fulton J. Sheen
What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a… — Jimmy Carter
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are… — Roland Barthes
The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do… — Samuel Pepys
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling. — Margaret Fuller
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid… — Margot Asquith
Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved… — Janet Morris
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent… — Susan Sontag
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. — Alan Cohen
If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. — S I Hayakawa
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction… — Jim Rohn
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not… — James K. Baxter
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is… — Maya Angelou
No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in… — Nhat Hanh
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism. — James Russell Lowell
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward… — Walt Whitman
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. — Samuel Johnson
"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To… — Karl Pearson

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