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Truth Quotes


"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job."


"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."


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


"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."


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


"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."


"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older."


"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search."


"For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen."


"If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth."


"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."


"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"


"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."


"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."


"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."


"The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood."


"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."


"I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had."


"The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections."


"There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake."


"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."


"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."


"Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out."


"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."


"Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not."


"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
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