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Truth Quotes
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
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"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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"The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests."
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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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"The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda."
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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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"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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"Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again."
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"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."
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"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
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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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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
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"Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in either case, they signify what I have been and what I am? One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth. Like light, truth dazzles. Untruth, on the other hand, is a beautiful dusk that enhances everything."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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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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"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
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"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."
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"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers."
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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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"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."
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"A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it."
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"I believe that in the end the truth will conquer."
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