#truth

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe. ↗

— Joshua Willis Alexander

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For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth. ↗

— John Amery

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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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