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Famous Quotes
- It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken on Truth
- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- Virginia Woolf on Truth
- It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
- Samuel Johnson on Truth
- It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.
- Francois Rabelais on Truth
- It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
- It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Truth
- It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth
- It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Truth
- It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
- John Locke on Truth
- It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Truth
- It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Truth
- It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
- George Santayana on Truth
- It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
- Sargent Shriver on Truth
- It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
- Giordano Bruno on Truth
- It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
- Doris Lessing on Truth
- It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
- It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Truth
- It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
- Arthur Balfour on Truth
- It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
- M. Russell Ballard on Truth
- It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
- John Ruskin on Truth
- It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
- Mitt Romney on Truth
- It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
- Sarah Silverman on Truth
- It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau on Truth
- It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
- Aldous Huxley on Truth
- It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
- Michael Jackson on Truth
- It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
- R. Lee Ermey on Truth
- It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw on Truth
- It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.
- Sloane Crosley on Truth
- It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.
- Gene Simmons on Truth
- It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
- Oprah Winfrey on Truth
- It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.
- Sharon Stone on Truth
- It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
- Mark Twain on Truth
- Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
- Blaise Pascal on Truth
- Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
- Horace Walpole on Truth
- Justice is the truth in action.
- Joseph Joubert on Truth
- Justice is truth in action.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Truth
- Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
- Alexander Pope on Truth
- Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Language is the house of the truth of Being.
- Martin Heidegger on Truth
- Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
- Helen Hayes on Truth
- Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
- Virginia Woolf on Truth
- Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
- NeNe Leakes on Truth
- Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
- Louisa May Alcott on Truth
- Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
- Nikola Tesla on Truth
- Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
- Jawaharlal Nehru on Truth
- Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
- Richard M. Nixon on Truth
- Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
- Michael Jackson on Truth
- Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
- William Hague on Truth
- Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
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