Truth Quotes - Page 18

• All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

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• It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Terrible, Interest

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.52, Heinemann

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• I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

  William Butler Yeats

  War, Thinking, Times Like These

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Religion, Existentialism

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• Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

  George Orwell

  Political, Belief, Mythology

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “I have tried to tell the truth: 1943-1944”

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• You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Witty, Powerful

  Daily News, February 25, 1905.

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• But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

  Thomas Paine

  Liberty, Want, Serious

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Philosophy, Fiction

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Beauty

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• Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

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• A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

  Tim O'Brien

  Lying, May, Happens

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Believe, Science

  George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.338, MIT Press

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• No legacy is so rich as honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Honesty

  1604-5 Mariana to Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 3, sc.5, l.12-13.

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• So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

  John Travolta

  Reality, Outrageous, Knows

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• Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

  Markus Zusak

  Believe, Answers, Sometimes

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• No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving, Lasts, Faces

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

  Lucy Grealy

  Wisdom, Hard Work, Thinking

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

  Simon Sinek

  Inspirational, Honesty, Helping Others

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Mar 22, 2016

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• Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

  Ayn Rand

  Knowledge, Mean, Reality

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

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• I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

  Diane di Prima

  Thinking, Two, Poetry

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• The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

  Henry A. Wallace

  America, Facts, Propaganda

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• Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Health, Agreement

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jun 26, 2010

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• The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.

  Mahbub ul Haq

  Life, Powerful, Real

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• Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

  Ivy Lee

  Inspirational, Change, People

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• Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Sports, Player

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