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Quotes About Truth

Most of what follows is true.' William Goldman, who won an Oscar for the screenplay,
~ Anupama Chopra
Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
~ Anya Seton
Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not
~ Anzia Yezierska
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
~ Aphra Behn
the parties involved. With one man's
~ Aphrodite Jones
left for Kenneth.
~ Aphrodite Jones
The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.
~ Apostolos Doxiadis
The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.
~ Apostolos Doxiadis
Truth is not always provable!
~ Apostolos Doxiadis
The amalgam of Truth and Beauty revealed through the understanding of an important theorem cannot be attained through any other human activity, unless it be (I wouldn't know) that of mystical religion.
~ Apostolos Doxiadis
Never utter these words 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know know to understand understand to judge.
~ Apothegm of Narda
Proverbs are the lamps to words.
~ Arabian Proverb
Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.
~ Arabic proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
~ Arabic proverb
True set you free.
~ Arabic proverb
Il faut beaucoup de scepticisme pour se satisfaire de ce qui est. Les amants de l'absolu ne rejettent ce qui est que par une croyance éperdue en ce qui n'est peut-être pas
~ Aragon
The more sure I am that I'm right, the more likely I will actually be mistaken. My need to be right makes it more likely that I will be wrong! Likewise, the more sure I am that I am mistreated, the more likely I am to miss ways that I am mistreating others myself. My need for justification obscures the truth.
~ Arbinger Institute
Self-deception is like this. It blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we're blind, all the "solutions" we can think of will actually make matters worse. Whether at work or at home, self-deception obscures the truth about ourselves, corrupts our view of others and our circumstances, and inhibits our ability to make wise and helpful decisions.
~ Arbinger Institute
The essence of sin is selfishness. It is the deliberate choice of self in preference to God—personal and wilful rebellion against the known law of righteousness and truth.
~ Archibald B. C. Alexander
Underlying all true poetry there is a philosophy of life.
~ Archibald B. C. Alexander
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
~ Archibald MacLeish
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.
~ Archibald MacLeish
You wanted justice ,didn't you?There isn't any...there is only love." - J.B's wife
~ Archibald MacLeish
It is the strategy which is appropriate to our cause and to our purpose--the strategy of truth--the strategy which opposes to the frauds and the deceits by which our enemies have confused and conquered other peoples, the simple and clarifying truths by which a nation such as our must guide itself.
~ Archibald MacLeish