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Truth Quotes
"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction."
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"Truth recognizes truth, just as a man with real talent is the first to recognize another with real talent. Likewise, superficiality attracts others with an artificial surface. Only the superficial applaud the superficial. A man of true substance rejects the superficial because he seeks only truth and depth. Based on this reasoning, you can easily measure the weight of any man's character just by observing who he admires."
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"The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate."
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"I'm sorry," Leon said. "I can see you loved your two friends and you miss them, and maybe they're flying around somewhere in the sky, zipping here and there and being spirits and happy. But you and I and three billion other people are not, and until it changes here it won't be enough, Phil; not enough. Despite the supreme heavenly father. He has to do something for us here, and that's the truth. If you believe in the truth--well, Phil, that's the truth. The harsh, unpleasant truth."
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"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
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"Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth."
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"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."
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"It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are."
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"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
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"We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States."
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"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."
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"Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment."
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"We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world."
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"Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth."
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"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous."
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"Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches."
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"You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect."
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"The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do."
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"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."
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"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."
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"The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy."
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"Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance."
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"Truth as a logic structure is closer to simple and the further away from simple you get, the deeper and more nuanced an explanation will become until you reach a point where the energy is so high that no explanation is possible."
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"That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does."
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"You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said."
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"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."
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"I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid."
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"Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth."
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"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."
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