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Truth Quotes
"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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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
51
"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
42
"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
41
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
36
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
35
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
32
"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."
32
"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
31
"If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
31
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
30
"We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience."
29
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
28
"We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others."
27
"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."
27
"Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in either case, they signify what I have been and what I am? One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth. Like light, truth dazzles. Untruth, on the other hand, is a beautiful dusk that enhances everything."
26
"The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments."
24
"Let's agree to be honest from the start. I would rather feel the disappointment that comes with the realization that we are incompatible than to feel the pain and betrayal that comes with finding out that you're full of crap."
24
"There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points."
24
"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."
24
"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."
22
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
21
"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."
17
"The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests."
16
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
16
"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
16
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
16
"Where students talk about being independent and on their own, you will find them practicing the most rigid conformity in dress, in speech, in moral attitudes, and in thinking. Sometimes they follow fashion at the expense of integrity. They dread to be alone. They do not want to stand out or be different. They want to conform. After they graduate from college, many of these young people want nothing more than a good job with a big firm, and a home somewhere in suburbia. But they don't find security."
16
"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth."
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