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Quotes About Truth

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
~ Ellen G. White
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
~ Maya Angelou
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
~ Frederick William Robertson
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
~ Bob Dylan
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
~ Noam Chomsky
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
~ Sai Baba
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
~ Khalil Gibran
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
~ Otto von Bismarck
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
~ Akira Kurosawa
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
~ Max Born
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
~ Robert E. Lee
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
~ Muhammad Ali
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
~ Buddha
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
~ Buddha
I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different.
~ Maya Soetoro-Ng
I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.
~ Shari Arison
I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.
~ Nina Hagen
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
~ Ben Kingsley
This business is a tightrope between ultimate ego and absolute devastation. You could lose. You could get knocked out. You could get in a car accident. I want to deal with the total truth of the situation. When you cross-reference the paths your life might take and modalities that might apply to you, I find I'm more at ease in a humble ground.
~ Keith Thurman
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
~ John Keats
Sometimes I might say controversial stuff, but it's all Darren Till, and that's the truth.
~ Darren Till