Truth Quotes

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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching… — Michel Foucault
Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed… — Michel Foucault
Factual truth is always related to other people [...]. It is political by nature. — Hannah Arendt
There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly… — Hannah Arendt
Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company. — Hannah Arendt
In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth — Fela Kuti
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they… — Thucydides
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. — Horace
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed. — Unknown Author
When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could… — Rafael Nadal
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close… — Boris Becker
In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. — John F. Kennedy
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues… — John F. Kennedy
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

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