Quotes and sayings about tag  #truth

Quotes and sayings about tag  truth

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People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

George R.R. Martin

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

George R.R. Martin

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

George R.R. Martin

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Georges Bataille

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Graeme Simsion

Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.

Greg Behrendt

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

Gregory David Roberts

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

Greta Garbo

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H.G. Wells

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

Harper Lee

Don’t talk like that, Dill, said Aunt Alexandra. It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?The way you tell it, it is.

Harper Lee

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Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Hayley Williams

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Helen Keller

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Hermann Hesse

To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier.

Hlovate

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Holly Black

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told.

Homer

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Italo Calvino

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

J. Michael Straczynski

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

Jacqueline Carey

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen

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