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Truth Quotes by Anais Nin
- I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on…
- One handles truths like dynamite.
- One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on…
- The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
- If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a…
- Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal…
- When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live…
- The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know:…
- I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes…
More Truth Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov