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Truth Quotes
"The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty."
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"I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty."
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"The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt."
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"I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process."
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"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
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"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."
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"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."
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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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"Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way."
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"Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false."
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"I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind."
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"The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood."
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"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
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"A lie has many colours, while white is the only faithful colour of truth."
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"The truth is simple.Lies are complex.The truth comes in sentences.Lies... in paragraphs.Pay attention to this when someone is communicating with you."
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"I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really."
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"The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth."
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"Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth."
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"Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth."
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"Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom."
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"The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth."
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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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"Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth."
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"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."
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"As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last."
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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."
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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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"Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."
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"For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth."
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"These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth."
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"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."
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