Truth Quotes

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Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did. — Walter F. Mondale
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it… — Archibald MacLeish
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through… — Blaise Pascal
As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those… — Vannevar Bush
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth — Boris Pasternak
If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept,… — Maxim Gorky
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even… — Ivan Turgenev
The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail;… — Ivan Turgenev
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never… — Leo Tolstoy
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty,… — Leo Tolstoy
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by… — Leo Tolstoy
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that… — Eugene Ionesco
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish… — Mark Rothko
The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when itâ€™s appropriate to be a child. I delight in… — Morrie Schwartz
Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any timeâ€“then you… — Morrie Schwartz
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It… — Ted Koppel
But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability.… — Condoleezza Rice
I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and… — David Brock
There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its… — Vaclav Havel

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