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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin on truth

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Anatole France on truth

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Nikolai Berdyaev on truth

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

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence Darrow on truth

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas on truth

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Samuel Butler on truth

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Samuel Butler on truth

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats on truth

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter Abelard on truth

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir on truth

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Simone Weil on truth

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
Rush Limbaugh on truth

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James Madison on truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S. Truman on truth

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
George Harrison on truth

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul Sartre on truth

The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide on truth

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver on truth

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt on truth