Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"Truth needs no eloquent defense; it stands on its own merit."
Charles Wesley
"The journey toward truth requires both the mind and the heart."
Charles Wesley
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"Do not seek comfort in conformity; seek truth in the depths of your being."
George Fox
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"The swearing of oaths is unnecessary when your word is always true."
George Fox
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"The light of truth cannot be extinguished by the darkness of opposition."
George Fox
G
"To seek truth is to seek the face of God."
George Fox
G
"Power obtained through deception is no power at all."
George Fox
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"Truth is not always beautiful, nor beauty always true."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
Friedrich Nietzsche
F
"The greatest truths are often the simplest ones we overlook."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I dare not omit, add to, or alter any part of the deposit committed to me."
John Wesley
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"I judge all things only by the Word of God."
John Wesley
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"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
William James
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"There is no such thing as an abstract truth; truth is always relative to some interest."
William James
W
"The truth is what works."
William James
J
"Light and darkness are but two expressions of the same divine will."
Jacob Böhme
J
"The heart contains more truth than a thousand books."
Jacob Böhme
J
"To seek truth without love is to grasp at shadows."
Jacob Böhme
J
"To live authentically is to live in rebellion against illusion."
Jacob Böhme
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"Every human action has consequences that ripple through both the visible and invisible worlds."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Truth has a timeless quality that endures long after falsehood has been exposed."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Authenticity is rare because many prefer the comfort of pretense."
Emanuel Swedenborg
E
"Truth spoken with love is more powerful than truth spoken with harshness."
Emanuel Swedenborg
E
"Integrity means alignment between our words, thoughts, and actions."
Emanuel Swedenborg
"The true measure of a person lies not in their fortune, but in their character."
Charles Wesley
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"I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
Spinoza
S
"Things are conditioned to exist in this or that particular way."
Spinoza
S
"Every individual thing must have a specific cause for its existence."
Spinoza
S
"Existence necessarily follows from the nature of anything."
Spinoza
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"The sought is seeking the seeker."
Ibn Arabi