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Quotes About Truth

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
~ Voltaire
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
~ Voltaire
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
~ Voltaire
The lesson of my childhood was that if you anticipate misfortune, you make it hurt less. It's a fool's truth, but what truth isn
~ Unknown
In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing?
~ Unknown
Great is truth, and all powerful.
~ Unknown
When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!
~ Unknown
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
~ W Clement Stone
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.
~ W. B. Yeats
Come on, Alan, you want me to believe you've been asleep for eight years? Nobody's that depressed.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Almost anything can be found in a book.
~ W. Clement Stone
Have the courage to say "no!" Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. Do it now!
~ W. Clement Stone
Have the courage to say "no!" Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right.
~ W. Clement Stone
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
~ W. Clement Stone
Engels could not prevent himself from occasionally unveiling the truth of what was in his mind: "We therefore reject every attempt to impose on us any moral dogma what-ever...."16 In other words, Communism undertakes to replace Judaic-Christian morals with a complete absence of morals.
~ Unknown
Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.
~ W. Edwards Deming
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
~ W. H. Auden
All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie.
~ W. H. Auden
False enchantment can last a lifetime.
~ W. H. Auden
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
~ W. H. Auden
Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.
~ W. H. Auden
Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.
~ W. H. Auden
Words have no word for words that are not true.
~ W. H. Auden
Always the following wind of history Of others' wisdom makes a buoyant air Till we come suddenly on pockets where Is nothing loud but us; where voices seem Abrupt, untrained, competing with no lie Our fathers shouted once.
~ W. H. Auden