Truths Quotes

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. — Jessamyn West
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. — Rebecca West
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. — Alfred North Whitehead
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when… — Frances Wright
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. — Fareed Zakaria
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on… — Julian Baggini
Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice… — Geoff Mulgan
Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people… — Henry B. Eyring
Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying,… — Sarah Rees Brennan
All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,… — Walt Whitman
There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but… — John Stuart Mill
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence — William Shakespeare
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. — David Mitchell
you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction — Isabel Allende
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. — Albert Camus
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths… — Virginia Woolf
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths. — Denis Diderot
you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in… — Joyce Carol Oates
But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths. — Terry Goodkind
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made… — Audre Lorde

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