Quotes about truth

"Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?"

Rosen, Richard D. on truth
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"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."

Rostand, Jean on truth   

"Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense."

Rosten, Leo on truth   

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on truth   

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on truth   

"There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth."

Runbeck, Margaret Lee on truth   

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Russell, Utterly on truth
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"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

Sabbah on truth   

"The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself."

Saroyan, William on truth   

"Truth lives on in the midst of deception."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on truth   

"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on truth
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always."

Schweitzer, Albert on truth
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"The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves."

Seabury, David on truth   

"What is true belongs to me!"

Seneca on truth   

"The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music."

Shaftesbury, Lord on truth
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"While you live tell the truth and shame the devil."

Shakespeare, William on truth   

"Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so."

Shaw, George Bernard on truth   

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

Shaw, George Bernard on truth
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"Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!"

Sherman, Harold on truth   

"The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and its' faithful observance, constitutes true education."

Smith, Joseph F. on truth
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"When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing."

Sockman, Ralph W. on truth   

"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on truth
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"When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on truth   

"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."

Sontag, Susan on truth   

"Truth is always the strongest argument."

Sophocles on truth
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"People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."

Springsteen, Bruce on truth   

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

Stevens, Wallace on truth
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"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on truth   

"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."

Stone, W. Clement on truth
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"One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth."

Strachey, Lionel on truth   

"What is true is true, and what is false is false..."

Swedenborg, Emanuel on truth   

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"A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on truth   

"Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."

Thatcher, Margaret on truth
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"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."

Thompson, Hunter S. on truth   

"Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love."

Thoreau, Henry David on truth
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"It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear."

Thoreau, Henry David on truth   

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

Thoreau, Henry David on truth   

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"If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?"

Tomlin, Lily on truth
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"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."

Truman, Harry S on truth
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"I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

Truman, Harry S on truth