Truth Quotes

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The language of truth is simple. — Euripides
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. — Samuel Johnson
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. — Aeschylus
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. — George Boole
I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set… — Muhammad Ali
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and… — D. H. Lawrence
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.… — Mary Baker Eddy
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think… — Remy de Gourmont
Love is a tyrant sparing none. — Pierre Corneille
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. — Epictetus
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was… — James Russell Lowell
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is… — Bertrand Russell
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.… — Oscar Wilde
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he… — James Russell Lowell
The truth is, I love Firestar now as much as I ever did, and I'll watch over him forever, knowing that he can never be… — Erin Hunter
For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe. — Richard Bach
Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful. — Jerry Hall

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