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Famous Quotes
- Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Truth
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
- C. S. Lewis on Truth
- Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
- David Duchovny on Truth
- Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
- James A. Baldwin on Truth
- Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
- Samuel Johnson on Truth
- Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Truth
- Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
- Jeanne Moreau on Truth
- Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
- Tony Blair on Truth
- Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
- Alfred Adler on Truth
- Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
- Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
- John Jay Chapman on Truth
- Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.
- Miriam Makeba on Truth
- Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
- Michael Jackson on Truth
- Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer on Truth
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius on Truth
- Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
- Alan Cohen on Truth
- Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Truth
- Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
- Alain Badiou on Truth
- Exactitude is not truth.
- Henri Matisse on Truth
- Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
- Khalil Gibran on Truth
- Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
- Bill Gates on Truth
- Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Truth
- Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Truth
- Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Truth
- Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
- George Eliot on Truth
- Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
- Christian Nestell Bovee on Truth
- Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
- Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
- Umberto Eco on Truth
- Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
- George Saunders on Truth
- Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain on Truth
- Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- Stephen King on Truth
- Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Truth
- Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Truth
- First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Truth
- For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
- George Orwell on Truth
- For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
- Marie De France on Truth
- For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
- Maya Angelou on Truth
- For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
- Bo Bennett on Truth
- For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.
- Patrick Henry on Truth
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
- For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
- John Dryden on Truth
- For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron on Truth
- For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
- Samuel Butler on Truth
- For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
- Thomas Carlyle on Truth
- Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
- Simone Weil on Truth
- Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
- Thomas Huxley on Truth
- Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
- Ambrose Bierce on Truth
- Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
- Herman Melville on Truth
- From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
- Tom Stoppard on Truth
- Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
- Ludwig Borne on Truth
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