Truths Quotes
1110 quotes by 804 authors
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What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in…
— Edmond Rostand
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Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in…
— Charles de Lint
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There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.
— Michel de Montaigne
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It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention…
— Melina Marchetta
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A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
— Roger Scruton
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Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different…
— Julian Barnes
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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we…
— Adrienne Rich
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Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know:…
— Anais Nin
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There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because…
— Adolf Hitler
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What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it…
— Caitlin Moran
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If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in…
— Noam Chomsky
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Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
— George R. R. Martin
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There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be…
— Henry Cloud
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The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Elder Jeffery R. Holland: “So we have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up and the truth to defend. We have…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a…
— Ted Dekker
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