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Truth Quotes


"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."


"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."


"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."


"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."


"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful."


"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."


"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 fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever."


"Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth."


"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."


"Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route."


"I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics."


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


"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."


"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."


"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 try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth."


"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."


"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."


"The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known."


"The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within."


"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."


"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."


"Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance."


"This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment."


"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."


"Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts."


"And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good."


"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."


"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."


"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
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