Truth Quotes

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The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A… — Alexander Hamilton
It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that they… — Alexander Hamilton
[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government. — Thomas Jefferson
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being… — Eugene V. Debs
Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same. — Vinoba Bhave
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat… — Bill W.
The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be… — Susan Cooper
You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there… — Rajneesh
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

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