975 private quotes tagged truth

“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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“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.” — James Russell Lowell

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

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“There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.” — Nikolai Berdyaev

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“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” — Pietro Aretino

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“When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.” — Amber Frey

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“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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

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“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.” — Peter Abelard

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“Ideas are, in truth, force.” — Henry James

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“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.” — Thomas Becket

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“The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.” — Simone Weil

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“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.” — Bill Hicks

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“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.” — Jane Austen

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“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.” — Joseph Addison

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“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.” — Clarence Darrow

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“But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.” — Vanessa Kerry

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“It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.” — Peter Abelard

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“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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