Truth Quotes - Page 39

• When all else fails, tell the truth.

  Donald T. Regan

  Trust, Honesty, Betrayal

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• Lying can never save us from another lie.

  Vaclav Havel

  Trust, Honesty, Betrayal

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• The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

  Hugh Jackman

  Simple, Reality, Special

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• In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Needs, Fame

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.

  David Hawkins

  Knowing, Identity, Truth Is

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• Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.

  Octavio Paz

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

  Confucius

  Human Nature, Sincerity, Virtue

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• I think everyone's hungry for the truth

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Hungry

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• Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

  Alvan Macauley

  Character, Giving, Forever

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• Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

  Vera Farmiga

  Honesty, Reality, Departed

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• We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.

  August Krogh

  Science, Ideas, Giving

  August Krogh (1959). “The anatomy and physiology of capillaries”

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• If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Life, Motivational, Errors

  Hans Reichenbach (1973). “The Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, p.326, Univ of California Press

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• It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

  Judi Dench

  Real, Reality, Convenient

  "Fictional character: Barbara Covett". "Notes on a Scandal", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Hammers, Use

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• It was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Fun, Reality, Firsts

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• We live in a real world. Come back to it.

  Natalie Portman

  Real, World, Reality

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• I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

  Babe Paley

  Trust Issues, Matter, Importance

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• If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

  Horace Mann

  Greatness, Men, Forget

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• Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.

  Esther Hicks

  Lost Love, Reflection, Law Of Attraction

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

  Ralph Wiley

  Color, Justice, Diversity

  Ralph Wiley (1993). “What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard”, Ballantine Books

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• Tell the truth, even if they do look at you funny.

  Holmes Osborne

  Reality, Looks, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Edward Darko". "Donnie Darko", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

  Ben Jonson

  Disappointment, Envy, Age

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• The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Acceptance, Science, Opinion

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• No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Objectivity, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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• The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

  Nicole Kidman

  Night, Reality, Lifetime

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