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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘truth’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.” -Henry Miller
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“Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.” -John Burroughs
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“Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all – of which all of humanity can be proud.” -Oliver Tambo
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“Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.” -William Hague
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“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.” -James Russell Lowell
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” -Flannery O’Connor
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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.” -James Allen
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“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.” -George Santayana
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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.” -Bette Davis
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“When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.” -Eric Hoffer
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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.” -Busta Rhymes
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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.” -Bela Lugosi
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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” -Alexander Pope
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“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one’s own emotions.” -E. M. Forster
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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.” -Sara Teasdale
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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.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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“Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.” -Aesop
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“Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.” -Niels Bohr
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“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“There is no truth. There is only perception.” -Gustave Flaubert
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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.” -T. E. Lawrence
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“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.” -Quentin Tarantino
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“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.” -Marcel Proust
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“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.” -William Hazlitt
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“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.” -Molly Ivins
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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.” -Carl Bernstein
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“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.” -Lord Byron
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“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.” -Samuel Butler
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“It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.” -Peter Abelard
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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.” -William Tecumseh Sherman
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“When you’re caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.” -Amber Frey
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“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.” -Abraham Maslow
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“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.” -Elie Wiesel
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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.” -James A. Baldwin
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“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” -Stephen Fry
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“I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words – and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.” -Sidney Poitier
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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.” -David Bowie
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“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.” -Harry S. Truman
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“I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.” -William Butler Yeats
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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.” -Francis Bacon
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“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.” -Anatole France
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“There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.” -Nikolai Berdyaev
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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.” -Thomas Aquinas
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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.” -Rush Limbaugh
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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.” -George Harrison
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“Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt
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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.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.” -John Ruskin
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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.” -Jane Austen
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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.” -Bill Hicks
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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.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.” -Alanis Morissette
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“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.” -George Canning
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“What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the…
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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.” -Kris Kristofferson
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“People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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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.” -Jules Verne
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“To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.” -H. P. Lovecraft
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“If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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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.” -Ellen DeGeneres
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“Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don’t like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this – it hurts too much.” -Donald Trump
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“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.” -Lewis Mumford
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“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.” -Lewis Carroll
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“What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.” -Henry Rollins
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“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.” -Blaise Pascal
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“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.” -Cal Thomas
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“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.” -Robert Brault
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“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.” -George Eliot
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“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.” -Richard Dawkins
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“In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.” -Albert Schweitzer
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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.” -Thomas Moore
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“In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.” -Xun Zi
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“Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.” -William F. Buckley, Jr.
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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.” -Denis Waitley
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“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.” -Thomas Sowell
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“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” -Chief Joseph
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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.” -Sylvester Stallone
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“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.” -George Orwell
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“Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.” -Helen Hayes
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“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.” -Charles Dickens
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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.” -J. Edgar Hoover
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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.” -Orson Welles
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“The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.” -Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who’s your real friend? It’s the person who tells you the truth. That’s who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.” -Bill Maher
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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.” -William Blake
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“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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.” -Charles Stanley
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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.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.” -Hillary Clinton
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“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” -Thomas Carlyle
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“The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.” -Emile Zola
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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.” -Thomas Merton
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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.” -Thomas Paine
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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.” -Karl Von Clausewitz
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“‘Men have forgotten this truth,’ said the fox. ‘But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.’” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.” -Bill Copeland
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“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.” -John Greenleaf Whittier
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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.” -Aldous Huxley
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“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.” -William James
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“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.” -Victor Hugo
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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.” -Nikola Tesla
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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.” -Pablo Neruda
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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.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.” -Richard Bach
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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.” -Epictetus
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“Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.” -H. L. Mencken
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“It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.” -Mitt Romney
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“Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.” -Ron White
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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.” -M. Russell Ballard
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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” -Charles Darwin
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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.” -Pietro Aretino
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“A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.” -Stephen Leacock
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“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” -Charles Peguy
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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.” -Malcolm Muggeridge
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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.” -Jesus Christ
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“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” -Isaac Newton
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“Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.” -Michael Jackson
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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.” -Hannah Arendt
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“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.” -Yogi Berra
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“If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.” -Hans Eysenck
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“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.” -Bill Gates
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“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it’s the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people’s hearts lie.” -Paul Scott
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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.” -Voltaire
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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.” -Anais Nin
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“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.” -Plato
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“It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“The truth is, sex doesn’t mean that much to me now.” -Lana Turner
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“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.” -Logan P. Smith
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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.” -Shunryu Suzuki
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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.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“Marilyn Monroe wasn’t even her real name, Charles Manson isn’t his real name, and now, I’m taking that to be my real name. But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.” -Marilyn Manson
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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.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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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.” -Angelina Jolie
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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.” -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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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.” -Ismail Haniyeh
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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.” -Bob Dylan
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“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.” -Coco Chanel
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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.” -Michelle Obama
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“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” -Vladimir Lenin
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“Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.” -Will Rogers
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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.” -Robert Kiyosaki
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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’.” -Dan Rather
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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.” -Deepak Chopra
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