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Truth Quotes


"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."


"It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth."


"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."


"The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever."



"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."



"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."


"When affection only speaks, truth is not always there."


"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."


"The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth."



"I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do."


"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."


"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""


"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals."



"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."


"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth."


"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."



"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."


"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."



"A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement."


"The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by."


"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."



"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."


"Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist."


"People care much more for how things look than how things are."


"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."



"I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures."


"Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."


"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."



"I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders."


"Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does."


"Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like."
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