975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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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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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” — Jane Austen

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“No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.” — William Osler

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

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“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.” — Emily Dickinson

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“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” — Stephen King

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“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.” — Charles Pierce

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“The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.” — Carly Fiorina

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“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.” — Thomas Sowell

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“I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.” — Orson Welles

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“To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.” — Bill Maher

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“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” — Chief Joseph

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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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“To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.” — H. P. Lovecraft

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“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.” — Robert Brault

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“Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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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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“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.” — Kris Kristofferson

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“But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.” — Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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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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“I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.” — Michael Landon

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