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Truth Quotes


"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."


"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."


"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."


"The worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth."


"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."


"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."


"See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners."


"You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite."



"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."


"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go."


"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."


"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."


"Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches."


"The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!"


"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."


"Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive."


"Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people."


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


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


"Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it."


"When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh."


"I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality."


"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."


"Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves."


"Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated."


"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."


"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."


"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job."
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