Truth Quotes
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
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“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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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me 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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“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
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“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
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“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”
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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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“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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“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.”
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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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“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
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“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
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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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“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
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“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
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“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”
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“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
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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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“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
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“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
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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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“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”
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“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
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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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“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
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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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“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
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“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
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“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.”
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“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
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“Facts are stubborn things.”
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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.”
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“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
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“Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.”
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“The object of the superior man is truth.”
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“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”
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“Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.”
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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.”
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“Truth exists; only lies are invented.”
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“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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“Silence is the mother of truth.”
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“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
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“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.”
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“Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.”
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“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”
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“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
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“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”
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“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.”
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“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”
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“By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.”
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“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
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“Learn what is true in order to do what is right.”
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“The first reaction to truth is hatred.”
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“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
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“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”
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“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
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“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
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“Light is the symbol of truth.”
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“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
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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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“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
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“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.”
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“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.”
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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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“There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.”
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“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.”
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“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.”
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“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
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“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”
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“Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.”
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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
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“Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.”
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“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
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“I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.”
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“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”
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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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“Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.”
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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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“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
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“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
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“The truth is more important than the facts.”
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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
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“The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”
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“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”
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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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“The intuition of free will gives us the truth.”
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“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
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“Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.”
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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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“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
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“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”
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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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“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
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“The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.”
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“Live truth instead of professing it.”
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“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
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“My longing for truth was a single prayer.”
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“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
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“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
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“When in doubt tell the truth.”
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“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
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“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.”
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“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”
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“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”
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“Sincerity is moral truth.”
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“Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.”
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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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“Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.”
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“A lot of truth is said in jest.”
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
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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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“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
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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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“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.”
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“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”
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“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”
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“Tell the children the truth.”
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“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight 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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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
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“The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.”
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“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.”
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“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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“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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“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
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“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
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“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
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“There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.”
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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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“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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“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees 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.”
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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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“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
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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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“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.”
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“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
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“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
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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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“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
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“Truth disappears with the telling of 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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“Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”
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“Justice is truth in action.”
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“Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.”
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“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.”
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“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.”
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“Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.”
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“Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.”
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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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“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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“No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.”
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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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“Truth is a tendency.”
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“The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”
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“The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.”
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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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“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
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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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“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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“Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”
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“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
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“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
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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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“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
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“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
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“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
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“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”
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“If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
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“John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.”
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“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.”
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“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
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“There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.”
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“Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.”
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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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“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.”
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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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“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
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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.”
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“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.”
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
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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.”
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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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“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”
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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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“Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.”
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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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“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.”
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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
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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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“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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“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”
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“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
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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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“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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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
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“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
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“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
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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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“I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.”
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“In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source.”
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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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“Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.”
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“When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'”
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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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“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
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“Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.”
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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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“Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.”
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“Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.”
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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
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“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
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“Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.”
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“After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.”
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“The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.”
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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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“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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“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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“There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.”
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“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”
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“A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.”
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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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“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”
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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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“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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“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
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“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.”
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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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“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
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“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”
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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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“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
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“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”
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“The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”
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“The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.”
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“Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
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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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“The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end.”
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“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”
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“I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.”
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“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
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“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.”
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“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.”
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“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.”
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“Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.”
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“Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.”
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“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.”
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“Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.”
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“There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now.”
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“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.”
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“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”
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“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.”
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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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“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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“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.”
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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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“The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.”
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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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“Being a pastor means you're a truth teller. That means you're truth teller when it comes to the Bible. That means you protect your people from deception that comes from the world. That's part of being a shepherd.”
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“Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.”
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“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
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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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“There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.”
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“Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.”
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“Time discovers truth.”
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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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“Error is always more busy than truth.”
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“Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.”
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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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“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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“The Way is the beginning of the ten thousand things and the guiding thread of truth and falsity.”
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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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“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.”
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“Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image's deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.”
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“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”
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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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“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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“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
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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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“To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.”
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“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”
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“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.”
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“Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite.”
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“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.”
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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
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“Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.”
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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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“Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.”
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“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
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“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
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“He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.”
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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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“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”
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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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“We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.”
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“Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.”
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“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
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“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
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“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.”
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“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
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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 basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”
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“The bud of victory is always in the truth.”
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“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.”
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“I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.”
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“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.”
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“If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.”
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“Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.”
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“You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.”
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“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”
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“The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.”
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“A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.”
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“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.”
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“Nothing I say is harsh. What I do say is the truth. If people have a problem with that, they need to realize that's on them. That's not on me.”
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“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.”
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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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“Country music is three chords and the truth.”
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“Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.”
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“I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.”
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“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”
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“The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.”
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“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”
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“To tell the truth is revolutionary.”
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“Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.”
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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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“As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.”
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“The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.”
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“The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.”
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“Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.”
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“Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.”
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“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”
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“The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.”
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“Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.”
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“The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.”
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“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
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“Seek truth from facts.”
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“It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.”
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“A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.”
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“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.”
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“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”
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“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”
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“The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.”
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“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only 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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“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”
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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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“The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.”
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“To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?”
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“Speaking truth to power is actually a form of loyalty.”
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“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”
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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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“I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.”
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“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”
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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
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“Truth is exact correspondence with reality.”
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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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“The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.”
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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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“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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“There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.”
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“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
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“Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!”
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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'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.”
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“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
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“I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.”
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“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.”
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“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.”
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“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.”
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“I'm interested in two things. I'm interested in truth and I'm interested in fairness.”
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“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.”
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“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.”
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“Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.”
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“Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.”
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“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.”
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“All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.”
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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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“A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.”
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“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.”
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“I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.”
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“My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.”
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“Truth suffers from too much analysis.”
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“I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.”
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“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.”
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“Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love.”
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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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“A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.”
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“There's no truth anymore.”
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“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
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“It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.”
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“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
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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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“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.”
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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
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“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”
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“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”
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“I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.”
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“Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.”
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“The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.”
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“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”
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“Here we have the Schengen agreement, and the truth is that for years we trusted each other and set border controls on the outer borders of the European Union. And as was the case with the economic and monetary union, with this step, regarding the management of the Schengen area, we did not go all the way in terms of political solutions.”
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“You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.”
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“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”
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“Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.”
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“We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.”
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“God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.”
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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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“Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.”
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“Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.”
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“Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.”
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“The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.”
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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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“The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth.”
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“We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.”
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“The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.”
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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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“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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“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
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“There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.”
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“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.”
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“I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.”
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“The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.”
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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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“Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.”
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“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”
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“The truth does not need to be defended.”
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“Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.”
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“The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.”
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“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.”
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“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.”
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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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“The truth has always been my greatest ally.”
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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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“Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.”
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“All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.”
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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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“Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.”
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“The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.”
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“A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.”
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“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
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“Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.”
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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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“I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.”
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“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
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“Wisdom is found only in truth.”
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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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“The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.”
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“Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.”
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
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“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.”
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“The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.”
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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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“A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.”
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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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“I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.”
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“If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.”
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“Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.”
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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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“Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.”
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“You never monkey with the truth.”
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“No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.”
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“I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.”
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“I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.”
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“Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”
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“There's no point in saying anything but the truth.”
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“If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'”
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“I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real ones who said, 'You're acting different.' But the truth is that I don't need that, because I don't get out of hand.”
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“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”
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“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.”
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“Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.”
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“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
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“Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.”
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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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“Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.”
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“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.”
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“The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.”
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“Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.”
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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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“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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“Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.”
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“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
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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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“One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.”
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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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“I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.”
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“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
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“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.”
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“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
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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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“Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.”
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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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“People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.”
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“You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.”
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“The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.”
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“I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.”
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“I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.”
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“Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.”
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“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.”
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“In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.”
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“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
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“To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.”
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“It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
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“To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.”
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“I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.”
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“Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.”
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“The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.”
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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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“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”
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“Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.”
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“The truth is lived, not taught.”
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“When truth is on your side, you don't need support.”
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“Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.”
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“Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.”
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“Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?”
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“Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him.”
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“You are who you surround yourself with, and that's the truth. I'm surrounding myself with the baddest dudes in the world.”
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“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
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“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”
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“The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life… it's a religion. It's not just something you put on a record.”
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“The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do.”
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“Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.”
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“The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.”
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“Truth is the best defense.”
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“The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.”
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“When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.”
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“Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.”
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“It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.”
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“I believe religion is a branch of spirituality, often misinterpreted and twisted to suit people's ideas. In truth, religion and spirituality are meant to co-exist happily.”
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“Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
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“Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.”
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“Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist… why would you want to?”
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“I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.”
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“Truth is always a delusion.”
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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
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“I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.”
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“Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.”
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“In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.”
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“I want a language that speaks the truth.”
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“The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.”
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“The truth about the Holocaust must not die.”
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“Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.”
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“Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.”
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“In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.”
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“Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.”
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“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.”
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“You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.”
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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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“Truth is a great flirt.”
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“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
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“Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.”
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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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“There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.”
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“I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.”
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“Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching 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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“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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“Truth is the daughter of time.”
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“We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.”
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“When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.”
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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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“Press freedom is the foundation of the rights of all Filipinos to the truth.”
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“The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.”
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“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
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“We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!… The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.”
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“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
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“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.”
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“The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went on for centuries against African-Americans. That process of reparations, and a truth and reconciliation discussion, was extremely helpful in the country of Germany, and we need to have that here.”
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“The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.”
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“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”
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“Architecture is the reaching out for 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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“The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.”
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“So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.”
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“Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.”
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“If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.”
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“The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.”
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“In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.”
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“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.”
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“Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
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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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“If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.”
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“All I needed to do was sing with conviction, speaking my truth from the heart, honestly and straightforwardly, and to offer my words, ideas and music to the audience as if it were one collective friend that I'd known for a very long time.”
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“Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.”
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“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.”
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“It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.”
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“In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.”
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“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”
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“We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.”
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“It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.”
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“I saw someone on Twitter describe Pence as the yin to Trump's yang and there is a truth in that.”
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“Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the 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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“The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.”
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“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
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“No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
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“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.”
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“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
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“The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.”
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“When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.”
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“The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.”
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“Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.”
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“The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.”
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“It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.”
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“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
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“The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.”
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“I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.”
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“The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.”
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“One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.”
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“This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.”
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“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.”
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“In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.”
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“I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.”
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“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”
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“Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”
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“It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.”
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“Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.”
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“One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.”
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“What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.”
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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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“Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.”
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“Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.”
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“Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.”
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“The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.”
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“Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.”
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“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.”
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“You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?”
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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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“A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in Scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.”
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“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
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“When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.”
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“Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.”
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“Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.”
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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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“If you walk on the path of truth all the powers in the universe help you.”
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“In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.”
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“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
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“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
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“Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'”
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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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“Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.”
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“It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.”
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“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.”
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“Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.”
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“When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.”
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“I've been taught that human nature is such that the place of privilege most often and most naturally leads to a sense of entitlement. The notion that I deserve to be treated as special because I'm privileged. The truth is, privilege should never lead to entitlement.”
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“Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?”
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“Social media is all about presenting the happiest, most positive version of yourself to the world. I'm here to say that we all have bad days and that it's easy to feel isolated - but the truth is that beneath the sassy facade all girls suffer from the same insecurities.”
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“The truth is, I do some of my best writing at 3 A.M. while blasting 'Every Time I Die' into my ear drums.”
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“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
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“The truth is that I'm not very disciplined with diets. In general, I do whatever makes me happy in life, and food makes me quite happy!”
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“Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.”
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“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
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“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.”
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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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“The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.”
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“If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.”
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“So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.”
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“The words of truth are simple.”
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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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“When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.”
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“A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.”
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“Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.”
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“We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' countries.”
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“I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.”
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“Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.”
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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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“I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.”
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“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
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“The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.”
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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
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“Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.”
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“I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.”
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“Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.”
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“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.”
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“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.”
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“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.”
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“Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.”
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“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.”
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“It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.”
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“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”
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“There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider… The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.”
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“Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.”
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“The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.”
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“Yeah, I think that's it… It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.”
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“Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.”
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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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“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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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
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“Truth cannot be defeated.”
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“When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.”
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“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.”
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“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
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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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“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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“Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.”
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“No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.”
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“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.”
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“Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.”
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“One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.”
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“There's is a fine line between living one's truth and looking good.”
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“A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.”
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“The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.”
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“The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.”
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“The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.”
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“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
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“Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this… will without much labour be effected.”
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“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.”
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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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“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.”
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“The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.”
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“Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.”
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“Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.”
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“I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.”
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“Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.”
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“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
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“Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.”
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“The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.”
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“Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.”
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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
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“Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”
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“People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.”
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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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“The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.”
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“To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.”
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“Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?”
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“I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.”
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“The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.”
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“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
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“Whenever people ask me: 'Why didn't you get up when the bus driver asked you?' I say it felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. I felt inspired by these women because my teacher taught us about them in so much detail.”
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“We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down… I'm not going to go anywhere.”
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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 scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.”
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“Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.”
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“When I went through my eating disorder, I never sought medical assistance. I created myths in my head about how I should get through things, so the idea that I could surround myself with truth and feel comfortable enough to speak mine allowed me to breathe.”
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“Humility is truth.”
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“It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.”
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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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“I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.”
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“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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“A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
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“The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.”
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“An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.”
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“Liberation from meaning leaves us skeptical of truth itself, comfortable only to acknowledge 'your truth' and 'my truth,' confident only in the reality of subjective feeling rather than objective fact.”
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“Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”
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“Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.”
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“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.”
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“As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.”
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“I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.”
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“The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.”
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“In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.”
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“Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.”
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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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“A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.”
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“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”
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“I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.”
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“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”
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“I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.”
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“The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.”
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“Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.”
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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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“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
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“Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.”
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“This is my truth, tell me yours.”
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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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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
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“The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.”
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“Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.”
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“The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.”
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“I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.”
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“My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.”
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“I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.”
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“There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.”
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“My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.”
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“A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.”
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“The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.”
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“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.”
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“Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.”
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“Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.”
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“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.”
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“Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.”
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“A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.”
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“I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.”
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“Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.”
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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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“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
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“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
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“I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.”
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“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”
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“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
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“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.”
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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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“Truth is what works.”
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“The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.”
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“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.”
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“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”
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“Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.”
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“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
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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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“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.”
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“All truth is not to be told at all times.”
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“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”
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“Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.”
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“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
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“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
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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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“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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“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
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“I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”
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“Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.”
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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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“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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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
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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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“My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.”
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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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“So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.”
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“My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.”
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“No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.”
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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 will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
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“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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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“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.”
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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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“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.”
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“Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.”
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“We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.”
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“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.”
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“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
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“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
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“Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.”
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“I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.”
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“The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.”
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“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.”
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“The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.”
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“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.”
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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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“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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“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
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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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“Our calling as gospel ministers is to preach the truth, confront sin, and call all men to repentance and obedience to the gospel - the good news that achieves soul conversion and saves sinners from eternal wrath.”
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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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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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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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“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
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“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.”
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“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.”
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“When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!”
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“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”
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“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
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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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“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
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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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“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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“Truth is the glue that holds government together.”
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“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
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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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“I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.”
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“To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.”
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“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.”
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“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”
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“Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.”
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“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.”
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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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“Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.”
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“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
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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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“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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“Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the 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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“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.”
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“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
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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.”
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“My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.”
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“Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.”
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“The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.”
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“For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”
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“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”
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“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.”
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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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“When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
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“My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.”
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“I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.”
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“If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.”
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“To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.”
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“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”
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“Science is but an image of the truth.”
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“I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.”
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“A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.”
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“I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead.”
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“After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.”
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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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“Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.”
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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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“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”
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“The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.”
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“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”
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“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”
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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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“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”
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“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
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“Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.”
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“The truth hurts sometimes, particularly when it involves someone at a low point in their life.”
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“Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.”
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“If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.”
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“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
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“The Truth, sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the light.”
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“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”
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“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize 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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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”
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“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
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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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“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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“Conflict is the pursuit of truth.”
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“All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.”
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“I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.”
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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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“Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.”
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“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.”
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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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“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
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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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“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.”
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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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“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”
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“Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
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“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
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“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
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“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.”
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“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
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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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“Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.”
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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.”
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“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.”
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“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.”
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“For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
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“For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”
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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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“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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“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”
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“Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.”
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“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.”
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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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“To tell the truth, I'd join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn't join a band with Paul McCartney, but it's nothing personal. It's just from a musical point of view.”
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“We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.”
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“Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.”
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“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”
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“Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.”
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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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“To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.”
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“So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.”
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“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
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“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”
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“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
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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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“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”
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“The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.”
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“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”
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“Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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.”
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“There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.”
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“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
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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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“In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.”
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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
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“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
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“Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.”
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“Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.”
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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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“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”
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“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”
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“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”
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“All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”
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“I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.”
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“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'”
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“I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.”
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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.”