Quotes

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88 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

— François de La Rochefoucauld
Truth Life

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

— Robert Orben
Truth Humor Society & Politics

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

— Noël Coward
Truth

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

— William Blake
Truth Philosophy Faith & Religion

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

— Ernest Hemingway
Truth Books & Writing

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

— Benjamin Disraeli
Truth

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

— Thomas Merton
Truth Love Change & Growth Friendship Trust

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

— Franz Kafka
Truth Books & Writing

So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

— Sarah Dessen
Truth

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

— Virginia Woolf
Truth Books & Writing

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

— George Bernard Shaw
Truth Happiness

The past has no power over the present moment.

— Eckhart Tolle
Truth Inspirational Life Philosophy Education & Knowledge Wisdom

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

— Khaled Hosseini
Truth

Top 15 Things Money Can’t BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.

— Roy T. Bennett
Self & Identity Truth Inspirational Life Love Trust Happiness Time

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

— Henry David Thoreau
Truth

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.