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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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“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.” -Bobby Darin
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“The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.” -Albert Camus
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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.” -Tony Robbins
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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.” -Frank Sinatra
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“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.” -George Bernard Shaw
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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.” -Jim Rohn
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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.” -Alan Watts
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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…
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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” -Ayn Rand
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“The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.” -Bill Cosby
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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.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.” -Aristotle
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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.” -Lao Tzu
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“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.” -George Carlin
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“The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.” -Khalil Gibran
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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.” -Chanakya
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“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” -William Shenstone
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“Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.” -Muhammad Ali
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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.” -Thomas Jefferson
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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.” -Jim Morrison
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“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” -Winston Churchill
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“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” -Mark Twain
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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.” -C. S. Lewis
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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.” -Maya Angelou
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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.” -W. Clement Stone
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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.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” -Charles Spurgeon
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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.” -Albert Einstein
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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.” -Buddha
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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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.” -Eminem
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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.” -Michael Musto
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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.” -Antisthenes
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“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.” -Jean Rostand
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“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” -Bo Bennett
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“My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.” -Prince William
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“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.” -Frank A. Clark
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“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” -Arthur Miller
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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.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.” -J. K. Rowling
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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.” -Steven Biko
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“Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth.” -Justin Timberlake
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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.” -Whitney Houston
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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.” -Patrick Henry
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“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.” -Jerome K. Jerome
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“The truth is more important than the facts.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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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.” -Shel Silverstein
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“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” -Elvis Presley
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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.” -Rene Descartes
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“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” -James A. Garfield
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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.” -Hunter S. Thompson
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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.” -John Calvin
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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.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.” -Swami Vivekananda
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“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” -Bruce Lee
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“Half a truth is often a great lie.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.” -George Washington
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.” -Galileo Galilei
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.” -Carl Jung
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