Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Truth is always strange.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
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Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, always.
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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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Time discovers truth.
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Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
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The object of the superior man is truth.
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Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
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The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
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The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
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A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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The difference between risk and uncertainty is that you can attach a probability to risk but not to uncertainty.
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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
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