975 private quotes tagged truth

“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.” — Anais Nin

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“Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.” — Michael Jackson

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“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.” — Jim Rohn

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“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.” — Hannah Arendt

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“It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.” — Richard Bach

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“Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.” — Natalie Goldberg

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“Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.” — Paul Scott

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“Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.” — William James

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“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.” — Bill Copeland

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“The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?” — E. O. Wilson

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“I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Jesus Christ

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“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” — Charles Peguy

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“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.” — Alfred Adler

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“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.” — William James

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“It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.” — M. Russell Ballard

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“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.” — Helen Hayes

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“A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.” — Epictetus

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“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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