Truths Quotes

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The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. — John Donne
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or… — James A. Baldwin
I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty — John Keats
We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. — John Stuart Mill
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and… — Herb Caen
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. — Isaiah Berlin
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty,… — Michael Dorris
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting.… — Marisha Pessl
The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to… — Jeffrey Sachs
These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress… — Frederick Lenz
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes. — Vance Havner
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. — Criss Jami
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on… — Rod Parsley
The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience. — Peter Weiss
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. — Pierre Trudeau
Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental… — Stephen Covey

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