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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Happiness, Men

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali

Different, Water, Religions

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson

Newspaper, Contain, Relied

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei

Understand, Easy, Once

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

Marriage, Wife, Charge

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Last, Mankind, Errors

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Facts, Eternal, Absolute

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Eyes, Result

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost

Life, Change, Favor

Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau

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

After, Others, Call

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Anais Nin

Life, Personal, Beyond

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.
T. S. Eliot

Best, Character, Become

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire

Men, Times, Nor

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Voltaire

Religion, Power, Lost

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Long, Nothing

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
William James

Enemy, Greatest, May

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

Faith, Great, Atheist

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
Chris Christie

Today, Sacrifice, Country

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia

Great, Pain, Mind

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.
Niels Bohr

Great, Truth, True

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Seem, Contradict

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov

Great, May, Give

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas

Others, Shine, Deliver

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
Deepak Chopra

Living, Accept, Soon

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West

Reality, Fiction, Obscures

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Eric Hoffer

Truth, Everyday, Ourselves

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope

Nice, True, Enough

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley

May, Errors, Harmful

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