A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last.
Georges BatailleThere are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais NinWhat is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris PasternakSo much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward DahlbergRisk! 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 MansfieldLight is the symbol of truth
James Russell LowellIn truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution
Nathaniel HawthorneHope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Alfred NobelIt is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max PlanckA writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction.
William FaulknerAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W Somerset MaughamAll truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel ButlerA rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Sir Walter ScottA dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Pearl BuckThe truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
Oscar WildeTruth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes JuniorThose who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own
Sir James MackintoshA platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley BaldwinExaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil GibranIt is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheTravesty of the truth [on reports he thinks people can't rise above their station]
Prince CharlesWhen my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her though I know she lies (Sonnet 138)
William ShakespeareBut now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' —that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John KeatsA woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty
Friedrich Nietzsche'Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.'
Michael JacksonIt is not telling the truth that makes politics seem negative, that makes people think all politicians do not tell the truth.
Michael HowardTruth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
Robert GravesThe truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom StoppardTruth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Edward GibbonYouth is truth
James MichenerI 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 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 NiebuhrWhen you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil GibranIf one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia WoolfThe truth is, you can't go on forever
Tony BlairTruth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William PennIt seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Brooks AtkinsonI certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth, and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other.
Daniel DennettThe main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.
John TempletonFirst and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheIf you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia WoolfMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand RussellThe truth is - I'll be a geezer and you'll be a slut
Mike CunninghamThere is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustav FlaubertParliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman TebbitOne must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise PascalThe 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 AbelardThe personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Anais NinTime, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
Thomas Huxley
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