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Quote 3468
The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3464
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3463
It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3462
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3458
They may be compared with waterspouts, and they pour down on the poet, be he a Schiller or a Dante, an Ovid or a Byron, utterly overwhelming him, rending his heart and body, tearing down his fame, overturning his reputation, uprooting his honour.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3457
It is ever the case with men in high places who are before the eye of the public: tempests arise unexpectedly, the existence of which is not suspected by the victim till they burst over his head.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3451
For then Reason, like a bad Hound, spends upon a false Scent, and forsakes the question first started.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3447
In brief, I am averse from nothing: my conscience would give me the lie if I should absolutely detest or hate any essence but the devil; or so at least abhor anything, but that we might come to composition.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3424
Nothing, therefore, can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose of acting in the sphere in which they have a right to act, of doing what they have a right to do, to secure persons, liberties, and properties, and to maintain each in its right, so as to cause justice to reign over all.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3421
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes - naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3417
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3399
I shall only add a promise to peruse your book dispassionately, and with a conviction that I shall find in it much to admire.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3398
This sort of men fancied that philosophy was to be studied like the Aeneid or Odyssey, and that the true reading of nature was to be detected by the collation of texts.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3388
I have collected many arguments for the purpose of refuting the latter; but I do not venture to bring them to the light of publicity, for fear of sharing the fate of our master, Copernicus, who, although he has earned immortal fame with some, yet with very many has become an object of ridicule and scorn.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3387
I count myself happy, in the search after truth, to have so great an ally as yourself, and one who is so great a friend of the truth itself.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3386
When we have the decrees of Nature, authority goes for nothing; reason is absolute.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3377
I cannot admit that they are living the good life.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3355
He is one of a crowd, a taxpayer, an elector, an anonymity, but not a man.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3352
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3343
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3305
Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3303
Whatsoever doth happen in the world, doth happen justly.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3301
There is no effort without error and shortcoming.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3278
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3253
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself,by: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3249
The greatest friend of truth is Time; her greatest enemy is Prejudice.Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3232
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3208
Where thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth.by: William PennShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3206
Inquiry is human, blind obedience brutal.by: William PennShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3201
Appearances are oft deceiving, and seeing shouldn't always be believing.by: MoliereShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3197
I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.by: Josh BillingsShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 3162
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3156
It is wrong always, everywhere and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3141
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3096
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 3086
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our heartsShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3039
A lie travels round the world, while truth is putting on her bootsShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 3014
In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youthby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2954
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2929
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truthby: John LockeShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2914
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2909
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtuesby: John LockeShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2906
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrantby: John LockeShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2903
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglectedby: John LockeShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2899
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truthShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2885
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new ageShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2879
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemploymentShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2865
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distortedShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2850
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2840
Never trust the artist. Trust the taleShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2819
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truthby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2789
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysicsby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2785
The real truths are those that can be inventedby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2731
I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must beby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2728
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2716
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2713
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out someby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2704
Beauty is truth, and truth is beautyby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2670
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches youShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2665
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2635
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2598
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or factShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2571
Half a truth is better than no politicsShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2544
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its authorShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2526
The true object of all human life is playShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2464
The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 2459
Be true to your own highest convictionShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2448
True love is the parent of humilityShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2434
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truthShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2418
I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that lineby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2342
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truthShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2341
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truthShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2292
Truth never hurts the tellerby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2265
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and trueby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2234
A 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 silentShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2230
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itselfShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2219
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see itby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2213
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter, often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter, in the eyeby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2200
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonizationShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2175
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too muchby: Francis BeaumontShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2171
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2141
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may leadby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2138
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of natureby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2124
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believedby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2118
Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truthby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2115
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immenseby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2113
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.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2087
He who doubts from what he sees will never believe, do what you pleaseby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 2079
Opposition is true friendshipby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2029
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearlyShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 2016
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silenceby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 1983
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influencesShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1952
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wifeby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1920
The truest end of life, is to know the life that never endsby: William PennShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1854
“The course of true love never did run smooth.Showing Quotes on truth
Quote 1814
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on themby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on truth
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Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the falseby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1762
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noiseby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1742
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would denyby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on truth
Quote 1710
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.Showing Quotes on truth
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