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Quotes About Truth

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
~ George Soros
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
~ Cullen Hightower
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
~ Barry White
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
~ Henry Petroski
We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
~ Blaise Pascal
The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power
~ Terry Tempest Williams
There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
~ Seneca the Younger
... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.
~ Joseph Heller
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
~ Plato
All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart
~ Mother Teresa
If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.
~ Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh
Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.
~ Laozi
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
~ William Gilmore Simms
Only after Realization you are connected with reality.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
~ Philip Sidney
Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.
~ Vincent de Paul
Don't believe everything you think.
~ Unknown
The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.
~ Paul David Tripp
The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.
~ Juho Kusti Paasikivi