Truth Quotes

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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste… — Ben Okri
The truth, finally, is who can tell it. — Chang-Rae Lee
In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little. — Lloyd Alexander
I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an… — Lisette Model
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. — Alfred Stieglitz
There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in… — Alfred Stieglitz
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds… — Roger Bacon
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life,… — Saint Augustine
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. — Edward Abbey
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth. — Edward Abbey
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. — Edward Abbey
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist. — Edward Abbey
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will… — Edward Abbey
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will? — Edward Abbey
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of… — Edward Abbey
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can… — Jane Austen
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering… — Mercy Otis Warren
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the… — Samuel Adams
I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in… — Thomas Jefferson
What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no… — Thomas Jefferson

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