Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Truth Quotes from famous authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Willie Nelson, Lily Tomlin, Viktor E. Frankl. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
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Truth cannot be defeated.
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Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
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You never monkey with the truth.
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There’s no truth anymore.
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
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Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
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I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn’t much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don’t let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it’s sad to be over 60.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there’s no truth.
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Trump’s behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.
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If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
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They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.
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Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible – to live in the truth, as I say – to get out of the lie.
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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
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I don’t think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That’s why people write novels.
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I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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Real intimacy depends on truth – lovingly told – especially in the bedroom.
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Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
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When in doubt tell the truth.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
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Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?
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The biggest thing is the heart. If you find the heart in what you do, if it’s stage work, set work, modeling, you find the heart of it, that’s where the truth actually stems from. Our true personality shines from within.
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Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective.
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Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.
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We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
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I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don’t understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
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People assume actors are born liars, but I’d argue the actor’s job is to tell the truth. And I’ve realised I’m not a good liar.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny.
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I don’t want to waste anyone’s time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
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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.
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You can’t get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
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Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
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Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
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The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That’s the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.
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Brethren, let us mind our own business – that is, the calling the Lord has called us to – to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, ‘What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?’
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.
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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
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My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
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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.
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
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God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
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My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
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For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
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All religion seems to need to prove that it’s the only truth. And that’s where it turns demonic. Because that’s when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
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Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
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It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
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There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
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Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it’s God’s point of view on any subject.
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I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.
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In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
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Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
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The first casualty when war comes is truth.
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Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
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Language is the house of the truth of Being.
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
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I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.
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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
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The words of truth are simple.
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The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.
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Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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The truth is that those who join gangs – more often than not they are young men in their later teens – often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.
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I’m not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that’s the best way.
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
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Authenticity, living your truth, kindness – these are necessary virtues.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they’re not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people’s lives than just truth. I can’t stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
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There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society.
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When the truth is spoken, it doesn’t need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
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Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
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Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
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Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.
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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
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Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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I think all good reporting is the same thing – the best attainable version of the truth.
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The truth is we’re all searching. We’re all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I’m by no means someone to follow.
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I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
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I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.
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He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
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Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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For great is truth, and shall prevail.
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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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.
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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
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There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.
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Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, ‘Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.’ People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.
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The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
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I detest jokes – when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn’t know it’s funny or doesn’t treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it’s a sort of rage against society.
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Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
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In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics – one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.
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An autobiography is not about pictures; it’s about the stories; it’s about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people’s privacy.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
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Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong – and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
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The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
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Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Truth is the best defense.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
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In life, if you don’t know the truth, then you can’t be free, because then you’ll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God, and you know the truth of who you are, then I’m not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God.
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Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn’t what they want to hear.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Such truth, as opposeth no man’s profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.
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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it. You find that out really fast.
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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can… I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
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I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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What is truth? Truth doesn’t really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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Everyone with a cell phone thinks they’re a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they’re a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what’s far out and what’s reality. And they have no dedication to truth.
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Truth, like a torch, the more it’s shook it shines.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
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Truth is a tendency.
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Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
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Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.
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It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don’t care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.
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Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite.
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.
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The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
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All religion seems to need to prove that it’s the only truth. And that’s where it turns demonic. Because that’s when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
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When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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.
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A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
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People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
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To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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We live in such a gullible world. Anything that’s written, anything that’s posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Sincerity is moral truth.
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And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.
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You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
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Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
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It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.
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The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
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The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.
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There’s something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
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The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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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.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
369
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
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All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
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When in doubt tell the truth.
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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
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I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
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The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you’ll be okay in the end.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it’s the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That’s where I get to delve into the characters’ minds and hearts. That’s where they become living, breathing beings to me.
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We don’t go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
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The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle.
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The object of the superior man is truth.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of ‘self.’ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‘self;’ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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I imagine I appear very outgoing, and I do enjoy people and parties and being involved in life. I am also a very private person, and I value my quiet time. I think people assume I am just a party animal, and in truth, I need to recharge my battery just like everyone else.
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
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‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
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Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Truth is the glue that holds government together.
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In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end.
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.
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Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.
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A lot of truth is said in jest.
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
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The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
428
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
429
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
432
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.
437
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
440
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
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You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
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The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
445
Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
446
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
448
You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
449
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
450
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
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The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
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Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
456
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
457
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
458
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
460
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
462
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
466
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
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If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
468
This is my truth, tell me yours.
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There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.
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Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
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The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
472
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’
473
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what’s needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.
475
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
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Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered… the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith… All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
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Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
482
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
483
This life is a test, and we’re put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.
484
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
485
Time discovers truth.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
487
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
488
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don’t want to hear it.
489
You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
490
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
491
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
493
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
495
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
498
Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.
499
All truth is not to be told at all times.
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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
503
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
504
It’s always good news when you’re closer to the truth.
505
I think I’ve been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like that.
506
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
507
Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
508
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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Truth is what works.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
512
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
513
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
514
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
515
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
516
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
517
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
518
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
519
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
520
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
521
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
522
Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It’s not just about us, it’s not just about me, it’s not just about Rappler. Press freedom is… the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.
523
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
524
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
525
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
526
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
527
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won’t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
528
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
529
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
530
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
531
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
532
When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they’re telling you the truth or not, there’s several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration.
533
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
534
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
535
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
536
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
537
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
538
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
539
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
540
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
541
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
542
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
543
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
544
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
545
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
546
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
547
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
548
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
549
You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
550
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
551
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
552
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
553
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
554
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine – ‘Beauty is the splendor of Truth.’
555
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
556
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
557
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
558
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
559
I am aware that a philosopher’s ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
560
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
