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Truth Quotes
"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it."
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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."
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"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."
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"I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar."
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"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth."
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"Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it."
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"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."
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"I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book."
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"So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on."
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"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."
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"Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests."
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"Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience."
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"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
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"Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth."
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"The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh."
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"You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
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"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
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"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
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"The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species."
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"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth."
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"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."
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