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Quotes About Truth

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
~ Cornel West
Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.
~ Cecil Murphey
Write beautifully what people don't want to hear.
~ Frederick Seidel
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
~ Jonathan Davis
When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.
~ Michael Eisen
Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
~ Paul Samuelson
Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
~ Bob Marley
Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
~ Ice Cube
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is a God we want and a God who is, and the two are not the same.
~ Ligon Duncan
No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.
~ Arthur Miller
I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.
~ Michael Shermer
Jesus has revealed Himself in the Scripture. If we want to know Him, if we want to know the Truth, we must devote ourselves to the reading, study, and meditation of His Word
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.
~ George Orwell
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
~ Laozi
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.
~ Auguste Comte
Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.
~ Michael Josephson
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
~ Katharine Graham
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
~ Oscar Wilde
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
~ David Mamet
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
~ Lauryn Hill
I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.
~ Steve Vai