975 private quotes tagged truth

“For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.” — George Orwell

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“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.” — Maya Angelou

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“What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.” — Hugh Walpole

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“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.” — Kenneth Starr

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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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“People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.” — David Duchovny

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“Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.” — Brigham Young

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“All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.” — John Shelby Spong

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“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.” — Thomas Merton

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“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?” — Lily Tomlin

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“Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.” — Philip James Bailey

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“The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.” — Kevin Rudd

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“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.” — Bobby Darin

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“Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.” — John le Carre

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“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” — John Calvin

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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” — Flannery O'Connor

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“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.” — Ida Tarbell

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“These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.” — Ricky Martin

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“One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.” — Ramakrishna

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