Truth Quotes
18464 Truth quotes by 6796 unique authors
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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul,…
— William Hazlitt
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Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
— Edward Gibbon
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When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth,…
— Don King
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There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science,…
— Raymond Chandler
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure…
— Georges Bernanos
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two…
— Muhammad Ali
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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach…
— Malcolm X
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Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.
— Bob Arum
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I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!
— Kai Greene
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It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
— Albert Einstein
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Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral…
— Albert Einstein
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Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
— Albert Einstein
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It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.
— Albert Einstein
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal…
— Albert Einstein
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This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.
— Albert Einstein
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In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of…
— Albert Einstein
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Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film.
— Jean Rouch
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I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema…
— Jean Rouch
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Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with…
— Brian Froud
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