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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 everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidenceby: William JamesShowing 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Quote 2434
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truthShowing Quotes on truth
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Quote 1776
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
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Quote 1710
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1632
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.by: William MorrisShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1571
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1506
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awakeShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1496
Wisdom is found only in truthShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1492
The truest wisdom is a resolute determinationby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1457
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoesShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1440
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.by: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1438
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truthby: John RuskinShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1422
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfectionby: MichelangeloShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1374
He is not a lover who does not love foreverby: EuripidesShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1361
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1358
The love we give away is the only love we keepby: Elbert HubbardShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1351
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything elseShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1319
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.Showing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1257
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshmentby: William PennShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1249
There is no sincerer love than the love of foodShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1147
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.by: Ernest RenanShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1129
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it homeby: John Stuart MillShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1085
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothingby: SocratesShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1078
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdomby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1055
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himselfShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1032
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desiredby: Martin LutherShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1025
Faith: not wanting to know what is trueShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 1004
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.by: Jean Paul SartreShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 995
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his wakingby: Margaret FullerShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 972
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendshipby: Thomas AquinasShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 954
Friends show their love in times of troubleby: EuripidesShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 947
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happinessby: Anatole FranceShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 927
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.by: Ben JonsonShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 916
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the futureShowing Quotes on truth
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Quote 914
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things newShowing Quotes on truth
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