975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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

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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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“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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“Veiling truth in mystery.” — Virgil

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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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“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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“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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“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.” — Adolf Loos

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“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.” — Chanakya

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“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.” — Bayard Rustin

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“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.” — Billy Wilder

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