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Quotes About Truth

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.
~ Patton Oswalt
Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature
~ Aesop
A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
~ Thomas Huxley
Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.
~ Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
~ Diane Ackerman
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful
~ Plato
Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
~ David Hume
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
~ Sophocles
The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
~ Baron d'Holbach
Nature doesn't cheat - people do.
~ James Randi
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
~ Bodhidharma
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.
~ Simon Blackburn
Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.
~ Peter Shepherd
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
~ Frank Herbert
My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.
~ Joaquin Sorolla
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.
~ Adoniram Judson Gordon
I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
~ Iain Banks, The Bridge
If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
~ Janet Morris
Man must go back to nature for information.
~ Thomas Paine