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Truth Quotes
"The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda."
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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."
75
"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."
75
"Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis."
75
"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."
74
"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."
74
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
71
"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
71
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
71
"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."
70
"Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?"
69
"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way."
68
"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."
68
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
68
"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
67
"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."
66
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
66
"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
66
"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."
63
"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."
63
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
62
"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."
61
"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth."
61
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
61
"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."
61
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