975 private quotes tagged truth

“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” — Isaac Newton

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“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.” — Charles Dickens

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“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.” — Jean Rostand

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“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.” — Donald Trump

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“A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.” — Theodor Adorno

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“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.” — Jeremy Bentham

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“I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.” — Ron Wyden

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“Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.” — Laura Schlessinger

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“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.” — Kim Il-sung

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“Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.” — Andre Malraux

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“It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.” — Gene Simmons

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“Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.” — Victor Borge

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“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.” — Sid Caesar

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“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.” — William Temple

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“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.” — John Keats

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“Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.” — Christopher Fry

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“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.” — Marquis de Sade

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“If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.” — Karl Kraus

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“The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.” — Emile Zola

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“A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.” — James Allen

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“I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.” — Sylvester Stallone

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