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Quotes About Good

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
~ George Sand
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death
~ Socrates
I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
~ Meister Eckhart
Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.
~ Josef Pieper
I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.
~ Iris Murdoch
The man filled with good qualities like Truth, Love, absence of jealousy, ego and hatred, can see God without searching for Him. He becomes a Jnani (a man of spiritual wisdom).
~ Sathya Sai Baba
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
~ Clarence Darrow
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
~ James Russell Lowell
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
~ Edward Albee
Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
~ Sophocles
I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.
~ Ali MacGraw
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
~ Anthony Collins
Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.
~ Svetlana Alliluyeva
My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
~ Richard Dawkins
Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.
~ Mark Akenside
If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Your good is happening right now, even as you accept this statement of truth.
~ Michael Beckwith
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
~ John Henry Newman
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson