Truth Quotes

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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 it’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 time–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
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a… — Theodore Parker
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the 'love which moves… — Venerable Bede
By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth, — Peter Abelard
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and… — Robert A. Heinlein
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. — Robert A. Heinlein
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man. — Nikolai Gogol
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth. — Wilhelm Steinitz
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew… — Bobby Fischer
Poets find truth by writing about what they love. — Susan Cooper
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. — Louisa May Alcott
A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in… — Guy Gavriel Kay
An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but… — George R. R. Martin
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. — George Henry Lewes
The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the… — Sandra Cisneros
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. — Torquato Tasso

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