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"You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes."
Maimonides
"You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes."
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"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."
Catherine Drinker Bowen
"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."
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"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."
Colleen Hoover
"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."
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"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."
Denis Diderot
"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."
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"If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad."
Hans Eysenck
"If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad."
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"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."
Kahlil Gibran
"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."
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"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."
Frank Luntz
"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."
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"However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else."
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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
Doris Lessing
"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
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"I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world."
Buddha
"I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world."
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"I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful."
Mark Strand
"I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful."
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"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."
Ambrose Bierce
"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."
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"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
Shana Alexander
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
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"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us."
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"But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished- behold!- all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile- and the return to an eternal rest."
Joseph Conrad
"But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished- behold!- all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile- and the return to an eternal rest."
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"Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?"
Lauren Oliver
"Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?"
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"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
Edward Bond
"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
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"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."
Harri Holkeri
"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."
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"It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words."
William Moulton Marston
"It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words."
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"Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie."
Paul Scott
"Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie."
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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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"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth."
Arthur Balfour
"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth."
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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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"The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly."
John Charles Polanyi
"The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly."
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"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."
J. Edgar Hoover
"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."
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"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
Evelyn Waugh
"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
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"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
Chief Joseph
"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
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"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."
Nicolaus Copernicus
"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."
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"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."
Barbra Streisand
"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."
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"Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
Henrik Ibsen
"Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
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"My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act."
Kathleen Turner
"My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act."
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"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."
William Gurnall
"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."
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"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth."
Justin Timberlake
"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth."
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"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."
Elias Hicks
"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."
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"I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth."
Elliot Richardson
"I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth."
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"The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to."
B. C. Forbes
"The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to."
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"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."
Epictetus
"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."
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"Betrayal is the only truth that sticks."
Arthur Miller
"Betrayal is the only truth that sticks."
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"Truth is exact correspondence with reality."
Paramahansa Yogananda
"Truth is exact correspondence with reality."
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"I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty."
Puff Daddy
"I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty."
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"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."
Logan P. Smith
"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."
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"Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."
Henrik Ibsen
"Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."
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"Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction."
Remy de Gourmont
"Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction."
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"Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling."
Jeremy Northam
"Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling."
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"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."
Molly Friedenfeld
"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."
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"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
Willa Cather
"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
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"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."
Walid Jumblatt
"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."
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"There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part."
Matthew Simpson
"There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part."
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"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
Joseph Conrad
"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
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"I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity."
Bill Hybels
"I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity."
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