975 private quotes tagged truth

“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.” — Charles Stanley

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“Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.” — Wole Soyinka

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“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.” — John Locke

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“There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.” — Maureen O'Hara

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“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.” — Louis Kahn

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“The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.” — Chanakya

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“Truth is powerful and it prevails.” — Sojourner Truth

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“Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.” — Johann Lamont

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“Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.” — John Jay Chapman

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“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” — Nikola Tesla

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“The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.” — Cal Thomas

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“The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.” — Jose Ramos-Horta

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“Veiling truth in mystery.” — Virgil

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“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” — John Keats

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“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” — June Jordan

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“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.” — Jean Cocteau

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“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.” — Virginia Woolf

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“There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.” — Louis Farrakhan

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“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.” — Thomas Merton

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