Truth Quotes

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Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste. — Mark Van Doren
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own… — Ayn Rand
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing. — Thomas Malthus
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it. — Neale Donald Walsch
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a… — Lucian
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their… — Thomas Jefferson
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice. — Pope John Paul II
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! — Oscar Wilde
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in… — Elizabeth A. Johnson
What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All… — Mahatma Gandhi
Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults. — Confucius
Danger lurks when we divide ourselves with expressions such as "my private life," "my professional life," or even "my best behavior." Living life in separate… — Russell M. Nelson
If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a… — Ziauddin Yousafzai
Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth. — Heraclitus
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself. — Paulo Coelho
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth. — Ken Blanchard
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone — Saint Augustine
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other… — Michel de Montaigne
Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him… — Michel de Montaigne
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and… — Saint Augustine
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. — Karl Kraus
For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it… — Clarice Lispector

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