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Quotes About Truth

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
~ George Sand
To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.
~ Noam Chomsky
The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
~ John Ruskin
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
~ J. K. Rowling
To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.
~ Weegee
I write because I have authority from life to do so.
~ Bessie Head
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
~ William Faulkner
Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
~ Marion Woodman
The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.
~ Muhammad Ali
Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!
~ Pope Francis
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
~ John Keats
I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.
~ Michael Nyqvist
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
~ Alexander MacLaren
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
~ Ayn Rand
Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.
~ Dan Rather
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
~ Dorothea Lange
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
~ Oscar Wilde
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.
~ Paulo Coelho
Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.
~ Aaron Russo