#truth

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. ↗

— Elmer Davis

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Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#earth #else #everything #find #live

There's no truth anymore. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#truth

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#attorney #believe #care #deeply #defendant

Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out. ↗

— Hailey Edwards

#hard-truths #wisdom #life

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#breeze #consideration #curtain #down #gentle

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#believe #believing #everybody #far #good

The truth is helpless when up against perception ↗

— Zack W. Van

#perception #philosophy #truth #zack-w-van #life

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. ↗

— Confucius

#art #asked #give #go #gods

The object of the superior man is truth. ↗

— Confucius

#object #superior #superior man #truth