Truth Is Quotes - Page 4

• If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

  Dogen

  Spiritual, Art, Truth

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• There is no god higher than truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Truth, Religion

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• It is the mind that makes the body.

  Sojourner Truth

  Positive, Truth, Health

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• Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;
  When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:–
  And the man who dares to tell the truth,
  Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

  George Francis Train

  Peace, Fear, Truth

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• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

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• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Peace, Fear

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on

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• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  William Blake

  Trust, Courage, Truth

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• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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• The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

  Ann Landers

  Positive, Witty, Truth

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Truth, Business

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• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Anger, Empathy

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• A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

  Thomas Mann

  Truth, Lying, Opposites

  "Essay on Freud". May 16, 1929.

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• When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Madame de Stael

  Peace, Truth, War

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• Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Literature, Valuable

  Following the Equator ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Edmund Burke 25

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• The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Lying, Race

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

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• Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

  George Berkeley

  Truth, Science, Games

  'Siris' (1744) para. 368

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• The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• Warmth is to sun, as truth is to me.

  Stephen Colbert

  Truth, Sun, Warmth

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• Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Truth, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1841). “The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized ...”, p.325

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• Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

  John Milton

  Strength, Truth, Wind

  Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

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