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Truth Quotes
"Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that."
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"There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny."
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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."
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"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers."
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"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty."
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"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
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"All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about."
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"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."
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"...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with words is one-sided, it's all just the half of it, lacking completeness, roundness, or unity."
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"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."
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"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."
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"As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there."
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"Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show."
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"When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy."
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"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."
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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
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"I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days."
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"These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth."
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"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it."
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"But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man."
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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
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"You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth."
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"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
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"What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises."
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"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."
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"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."
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"The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite."
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"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."
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"Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?"
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"In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him."
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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."
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