Truths Quotes

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Utopias are often just premature truths. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths. — Vladimir Lenin
Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more… — Ann Shulgin
There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions. — Dana Gioia
Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close,… — Mark Lawrence
Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in… — Criss Jami
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one… — Criss Jami
A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the… — Mary Baker Eddy
A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still carry elements of… — Charles de Lint
If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table. — James A. Garfield
I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the… — Madame de Stael
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is… — Marvin Minsky
One handles truths like dynamite. — Anais Nin
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. — Charles Caleb Colton
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth… — Milton R. Hunter
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free… — Louis D. Brandeis

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