There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. - The Prince
Niccolo MachiavelliTo become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
NovalisIn the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma GandhiChristianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.
Abbott E KittredgeNo one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George OrwellA new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it
Max PlanckAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard ShawIn plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice
MontaigneI do not see the motivation to lie, it is a known fact that truth can be more interesting than the strangest of fictions.
James HallOf a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one
Thomas CarlyleMany of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view
Obi Wan KenobiJustice is truth in action.
Benjamin DisraeliAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W Somerset MaughamIn a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George OrwellThe truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
Mary ClarkFor thirty years people have been asking me how I reconcile X with Y! The truthful answer is that I don't. Everything about me is a contradiction and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them
Orson Welles'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' —that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John KeatsI went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie ChaplinI can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
George CanningViolence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
Demi MoorePersonality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren KierkegaardFor great is truth, and shall prevail
Thomas BrooksThree things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth
BuddhaThe truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Anthony RobbinsTruth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa CatherAn aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
Karl KrausNagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Edith SummerskillFrom principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts
Nathaniel HawthorneI am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor StravinskyNow, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
Martin Luther KingDon't let anybody fool you or tell you anything else, the truth is that composing is hard work!
Lou HarrisonThe truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
Oscar WildeDoubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Hosea BallouThere is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Daniel WebsterIn dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard CohenI have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
Barbara CartlandYouth is truth
James MichenerThere is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustav FlaubertAll truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel ButlerBy means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth
Yukio MishimaA good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
Bruce DavisonFame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Christian Nestell BoveeTechnology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary: The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels BohrRisk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine MansfieldThe true inquirer seeks the truth everywhere.
Ernst MachEvery communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'.
Mao Tse-TungBeauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
Gustave CourbetTruth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Edward Gibbon
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