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Truth Quotes


"Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie."


"An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."


"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."


"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""



"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold."


"There is no original truth, only original error."



"This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting."


"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."


"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."


"See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners."


"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good."


"We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth."



"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."



"When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it."


"The intuition of free will gives us the truth."


"Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense."


"Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out."


"My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth."


"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."


"Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception."


"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand."


"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."


"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."


"The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns."


"Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things."
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