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Truth Quotes



"Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth."


"There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake."



"Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not."



"Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise."


"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world."


"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."


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


"Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth."


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


"That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each."



"I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics."


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



"Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts."


"I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it."


"When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there."



"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."


"The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself."


"I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves."


"In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact."



"If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America."


"And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity."


"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it."


"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."


"Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all."



"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."


"As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold."



"The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV."


"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."



"Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, 'Is this my life?', remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes."
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