975 private quotes tagged truth

“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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“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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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” — Oscar Wilde

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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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“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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“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” — Martin Luther

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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” — Albert Einstein

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