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“Truth has not such an urgent air.
[Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes Source: L'Art Poetique (I, 198)
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“At times truth may not seem probable.
[Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes Source: L'Art Poetique (III, 48)
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“Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed.
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed.
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.”
Horatius Bonar, D.D. Quotes Source: Hymns of Faith and Hope (p. 113), (ed. 1813)
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“Truth exists; only lies are invented.”
Horatius Bonar, D.D. Quotes Source: Hymns of Faith and Hope (p. 113), (ed. 1813)
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“Truth is mighty and will prevail.
[Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]”
Thomas Brooks Quotes Source: he is said to have been the first to use the expression (1662)
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“He said true things, but called them by wrong names.”
Thomas Brooks Quotes Source: he is said to have been the first to use the expression (1662)
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“If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]”
Giordano Bruno Quotes Source: Degli Eroici Furori
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“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again:
Th' eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers.”
Bear Bryant Quotes Source: The Battle Field (st. 9)
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“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every
eye looking on finds its own.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: Caxtoniana (essay XIV)
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“Arm thyself for the truth!”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: Lady of Lyons (act V, sc. 1)
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“For truth is precious and divine;
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 257)
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“'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III)
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“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!”
Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes |
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“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Sherlock Holmes Quotes |
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“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
Lillian Hellman Quotes |
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“It is always the best policy to speak the truth-- unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”
Jerome K Jerome Quotes |
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“Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Dr Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull Quotes |
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“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Samuel Butler Quotes |
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
Niels Bohr Quotes |
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“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
Lenin Quotes |
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“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Galileo Quotes |
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