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Quotes About Truth

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
~ C. S. Lewis
Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
~ Djuna Barnes
You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.
~ Eugene O'Neill
Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
~ Lauren Oliver, Delirium
The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us.
~ Curtis Martin
Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.
~ Eberhard Arnold
He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.
~ Jesse Ball
When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.
~ Theodor Adorno
How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history.
~ Mark Hart
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
~ Max Beckmann
The truth of truths is love.
~ Philip James Bailey
We didn't love freedom enough.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.
~ Charles Portis
I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
~ David Geffen
There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
~ Diogenes
The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing.
~ Eric Woolfson
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.
~ Francis Pharcellus Church
Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.
~ Maya Angelou
Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies
~ William Shakespeare
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
~ Alfred Day Hershey