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Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.
Miyamoto Musashi
Accuracy is not adjustable to your wishes; it is immutable and you must accept its authority or live a falsehood.
2.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Aristotle
Exercise skepticism and question the veracity of what you encounter before embracing it as fact.
3.
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
Michel Foucault
4.
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
Isaac Newton
Veracity is the progeny of hush and contemplation.
5.
Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.
S. N. Goenka
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
Jerry Garcia
Insight is something you discover when you believe you are headed elsewhere.
7.
The truth is the best propaganda.
Adolf Hitler
The truth is the most powerful tool.
8.
Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.
Mike Murdock
Veracity is the mightiest strength on earth because it cannot be altered.
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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Reality is neither in the affirmation nor denial, but in an arising harmony which brings together the two.
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Truth is not what I say it is, and not what you think it is. Truth is what God's word says it is.
John Hagee
'Veracity is not something I dictate nor what you conceive. Veracity is established by the Lord's dictation.'
12.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
The declared veracity is that the highest felicity of the majority is the criterion of right and wrong.
13.
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.
John von Neumann
Accuracy is too intricate to tolerate anything but estimates.
14.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
Veracity is so obfuscated in the present day, and untruthfulness so entrenched, that, unless we are devoted to accuracy, we are unable to discern it.
15.
To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.
Brother Lawrence
To revere God earnestly is to acknowledge Him for His divinity, and to be aware of our own mortal nature.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu Bakr
The most fundamental truth is integrity, and the greatest lie is untruthfulness.
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Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)
Zoroaster
18.
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C. S. Lewis
19.
The truth is, sometimes you have to get left before you can get right. Sometimes God will take you left on your journey to get you right, to do a work in you that will prepare you for what He has for you.
Jentezen Franklin
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
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Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction
Mikhail Bakhtin
23.
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
Giuseppe Verdi
24.
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
Terry Eagleton
25.
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
James Longstreet
26.
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
Solon
27.
A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.
Huineng
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Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.
David Steindl-Rast
29.
The truth is, you don't need the Lord to do anything for you. He's already done His part. You've already got it, whatever "it" is.
Andrew Wommack
30.
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.
Octavia Butler
31.
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)
Robert Capa
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The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.
Ashleigh Brilliant
33.
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee
35.
Not every light is a true light;
To the wise the light of truth is light itself.
Thiruvalluvar
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
Mark Twain
40.
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.
Mao Zedong
42.
The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.
Pat Tillman
43.
The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it's undeniable.
DMX
44.
Custom without truth is error grown old.
Tertullian
45.
The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Mitch Albom
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
Paul Cezanne
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
C. S. Lewis
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The truth is to be lived, not just mouthed.
Huineng
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The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.
Eyedea
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There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.
Rhonda Byrne