Truth Quotes

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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell. — William Penn
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not… — Epictetus
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is… — Emanuel Swedenborg
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw. — Jack Kerouac
One must keep repeating the Truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth is for the minority. — Baltasar Gracian
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. — George Herbert
I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
No one is entitled to the truth. — E. Howard Hunt
Tell troth and shame the devil. — Ben Jonson
A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true. — Steve Martin
The truth is never pure and rarely simple. — Oscar Wilde
When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your… — Rick Pitino
Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political… — John Stuart Mill
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth — Bruno Frey
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press.… — Auguste Comte
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day… — Ludwig von Mises

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