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"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."
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"The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold."
Albert Pike
"The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold."
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"I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth."
Naomi Campbell
"I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth."
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"I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth."
Albert Finney
"I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth."
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"Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant."
Michael Novak
"Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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"I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly."
Oliver North
"I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly."
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"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."
Susan Smith
"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."
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Thomas Jefferson
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
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"And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity."
Ernst Toller
"And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity."
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"I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir."
Armistead Maupin
"I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir."
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"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."
Swami Vivekananda
"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."
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"People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands."
Abbe Pierre
"People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands."
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"Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it."
William Kingdon Clifford
"Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it."
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"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves."
Robert Anton Wilson
"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves."
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"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
Michel de Montaigne
"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
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"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."
Susan Sontag
"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."
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"I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it."
Edward Irving
"I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it."
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"I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get."
Howard Fineman
"I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get."
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
Andre Gide
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
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"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around."
Frank Howard Clark
"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around."
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
Mark Twain
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
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"The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril ."
Alfred Loisy
"The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril ."
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"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth."
Helene Deutsch
"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth."
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"One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis."
David Douglass
"One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis."
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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
John Stuart Mill
"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
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"Usually we are saying only part of the truth."
Erno Rubik
"Usually we are saying only part of the truth."
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"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."
Flannery O'Connor
"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."
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"It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face."
Kevin Spacey
"It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face."
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"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."
John Milton
"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."
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"This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting."
Fernand Leger
"This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting."
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"The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns."
Richard Roeper
"The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns."
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"Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship."
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
"Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship."
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"In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy."
Herbert Simon
"In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy."
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"Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference."
Mort Sahl
"Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference."
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"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."
Alexis Carrel
"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."
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"Error is always more busy than truth."
Hosea Ballou
"Error is always more busy than truth."
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"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."
John Masefield
"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."
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"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."
Orson Welles
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."
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"So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth."
John Travolta
"So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth."
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"I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth."
Walter Martin
"I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth."
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"As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions."
Hans Kung
"As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions."
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"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice."
Gloria Estefan
"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice."
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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
Gerrit Smith
"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
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"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
George Bancroft
"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
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"I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth."
David Geffen
"I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth."
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"I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth."
Eric Carr
"I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth."
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"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
Horace Walpole
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
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"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
Daniel Webster
"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
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