975 private quotes tagged truth

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“Always do right - It will please many people, and amaze the rest.”— Mark Twain
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“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”— Buddha
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“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”— Muhammad Ali
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“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.”— Bill Gates
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“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“When people give you their money they tell you the truth.”— Jason Fried
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”— Oscar Wilde
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“One must not be afraid of new ideas, no matter the source. And we must never fear the truth, even when it pains us.”— Al-Kindi
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“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”— Samuel Johnson
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“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”— Coco Chanel
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“A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.”— Baltasar Gracian
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“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”— Khalil Gibran
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“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”— Leonardo da Vinci
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“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”— Niels Bohr
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“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”— Carl Jung
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“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”— Martin Luther
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”— Charles Spurgeon
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“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”— Tom Hanks
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“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”— Albert Einstein