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Truth Quotes


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


"We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States."


"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."


"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."


"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."


"You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth."


"You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth."


"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."



"See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers."


"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."


"The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it."


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


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


"In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts."


"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good."


"As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold."


"Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players."


"The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."


"But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job."


"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."


"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth."


"That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each."


"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."


"The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone."


"What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises."
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