Truth Quotes - Page 27

• Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

  William Penn

  Freedom, Suffering, Democracy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.135

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• Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

  Anais Nin

  Reality, Expansion, Literature

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• Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Clarity, Intention, Advantages And Disadvantages

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• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  Pietro Aretino

  Inspirational, I Love You, Boyfriend

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Trust, Ocean, Science

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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• A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Love, Inspirational, Christian

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• Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Inspirational, Moving, Yoga

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Deep Thought

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 06, 2017

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• Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.

  Stephen Colbert

  Facts

  "Colbert Spoofs Cable-News Punditry" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 14, 2005.

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• God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Self, Support

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Honesty, Lying, Attractiveness

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• The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Life, Dangerous World

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• The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

  David Seabury

  Facts, Speak, Ifs

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• I never know how much of what I say is true.

  Bette Midler

  Funny, Cynicism, Explanation

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• Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

  Austin O'Malley

  Honesty, Liars, Lying

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• Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

  M. Scott Peck

  Pain, Hate, Light

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• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

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• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

  James Russell Lowell

  Funny, Agreement, Different Faces

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

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• Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fear, Men, Atheism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.367

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  You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

  Johnny Cash

  "Alone with the Man in Black". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2003.

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Views, Silence, Opinion

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny, Work, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

  Blaize Clement

  People, Way, Shut Up

  Blaize Clement (2009). “Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Relationship, Faith

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