975 private quotes tagged truth

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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“I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.” — William Lloyd Garrison

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“I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.” — William Tyndale

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“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.” — Daniel Webster

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“To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.” — Frank Herbert

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“The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.” — Sun Myung Moon

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“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.” — William Osler

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“Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.” — Elizabeth Kenny

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“One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?” — Emma Thompson

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“I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.” — Igor Stravinsky

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“The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.” — Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

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“People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.” — David Petraeus

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“Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.” — Joan of Arc

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“Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.” — Beth Ditto

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“I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.” — James Otis

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“The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.” — William Osler

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“I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.” — Kevin O'Leary

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“All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.” — Nigel Kneale

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“Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.” — Vernon Howard

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“Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.” — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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“A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.” — Joe Biden

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“A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.” — Graham Greene

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