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Truth Quotes
"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings."
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"Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth."
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"When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths."
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"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."
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"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."
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"Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second."
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"For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth."
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"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."
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"The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real."
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"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself."
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"The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!"
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"The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."
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"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth."
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"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
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"This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials."
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"The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert."
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"We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also."
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"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
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"When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh."
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"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."
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"Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated."
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"The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door."
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"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."
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"Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth."
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"As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely."
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"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job."
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"And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you."
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"The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?"
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"The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth."
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"Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing."
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"As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'"
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"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."
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