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Truth Quotes
"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
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"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way."
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"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
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"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."
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"The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story."
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"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
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"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
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"The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda."
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"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."
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"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
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"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."
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"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
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"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out."
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"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."
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"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
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"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth."
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"Let's agree to be honest from the start. I would rather feel the disappointment that comes with the realization that we are incompatible than to feel the pain and betrayal that comes with finding out that you're full of crap."
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"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may."
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"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
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"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."
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"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers."
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"Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't."
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