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Truth Quotes


"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."


"Every time the song looped, all I heard was the part about the lies - and how they weigh you down. Tonight, as I drive toward Detroit in my Jeep, I know what those words really mean. It's not just the lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from - it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it."


"If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad."


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


"The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth."


"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."


"I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful."


"Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth."



"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."


"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us."


"That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well."


"It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words."



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


"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth."


"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."


"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."


"The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough."


"Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""


"Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one."


"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth."


"In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions."


"I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty."


"Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction."


"TRUTH serves a great purpose for all that want to see. It will help uncover your life's mission in order to reveal what your soul wants you to be."



"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."



"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."


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