Truths Quotes
1110 Truths quotes by 804 unique authors
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
— Ernest Renan
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Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one…
— Jonathan Sacks
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
— George Bernard Shaw
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
— David Friedrich Strauss
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism,…
— Radhanath Swami
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Truths and roses have thorns about them.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
— Desmond Tutu
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No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and…
— Paul Valery
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
— Paul Valery
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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
— Voltaire
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
— Voltaire
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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
— William Arthur Ward
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
— Daniel Webster
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
— Jessamyn West
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
— Rebecca West
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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
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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
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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
— Fareed Zakaria
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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