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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about truth, public, character

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Quote by Niels Bohr about truth

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Quote by Jacques Prévert about truth, police, real estate

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Quote by Joseph Addison about measure, faith

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Quote by Albert Camus about truth

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about faith

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths.

Quote by Aleksandr Sergheevici Puskin about delusion

In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills...

Quote by Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac about philosophy, magic, example, things, time

Lies are the truths of liars.

Quote by Valeria Mahoc about lie

The Absolute Truth is only one for the infinity of possible truths that lie.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about truth, lie, absolute, wisdom

How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!

Quote by Sorin Cerin about truth, absolute, wisdom, real estate, life

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

Quote by Tom Stoppard about truth