975 private quotes tagged truth

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” — Wallace Stevens

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“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.” — Joseph Addison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.” — Ice Cube

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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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“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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“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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