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Truth Quotes


"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."



"Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant."


"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."


"I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly."



"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."


"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."


"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."


"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."


"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."


"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."



"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth."


"One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis."


"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."


"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."


"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."


"This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting."


"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."


"Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship."


"Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference."


"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."


"So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth."


"As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions."


"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice."


"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."


"I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth."


"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
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