975 private quotes tagged truth

“For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.” — George Orwell

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“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.” — Maya Angelou

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“All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.” — John Shelby Spong

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“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.” — Philip James Bailey

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“The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.” — Kevin Rudd

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“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.” — Bobby Darin

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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” — Flannery O'Connor

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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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“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” — John Calvin

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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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“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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“One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.” — Ramakrishna

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“Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.” — Shunryu Suzuki

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“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?” — Lily Tomlin

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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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“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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“God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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“We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.” — Charles Stanley

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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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