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Browse our collection of Truth Sayings & Quotes from books from famous people around the world.
There 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.
I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.
My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one
No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world."
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness".
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
