Quotes of Verity - somelinesforyou

“ There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted. ”

- Voltaire

“ Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ See it like it is! ”

- Herb Cohen

“ Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth.". ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other. ”

- Isaac Stern

“ The president has always urged everyone to tell the truth. ”

- Charles Ruff

“ Truth is reality. ”

- Mary Caroline Richards

“ Two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are obviously absurd, and profound truths, recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ In wine, there's truth. ”

- Pliny the Elder

“ Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. ”

- Unknown

“ Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. ”

- Albert Camus

“ What is, is; and what ain't, ain't. ”

- Joseph E. Granville

“ This is my truth, tell me yours. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ A lie told often enough becomes the truth. ”

- Lenin

“ Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone. ”

- Unknown

“ The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths — it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it. ”

- M. Scott Peck

“ The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ”

- Anais Nin

“ The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ”

- Frederick The Great

“ At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths — your abilities and your failings. ”

- Gerard Depardieu
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