975 private quotes tagged truth

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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”— Max Planck
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“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.”— Harry S. Truman
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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”— Ayn Rand
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“Half a truth is often a great lie.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.”— Francis Bacon
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“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”— Mark Twain
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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”— Albert Camus
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”— Winston Churchill
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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Silence is the mother of truth.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”— Leonardo da Vinci
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“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.”— Will Rogers
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“Half a truth is better than no politics.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Adversity is the first path to truth.”— Lord Byron
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“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”— George Eliot
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“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“All truth is not to be told at all times.”— Samuel Butler
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“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”— Rabindranath Tagore
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“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”— William Blake
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“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”— Albert Camus