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Truth Quotes
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
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"The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda."
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"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth."
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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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"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way."
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"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
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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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"The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it."
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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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"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
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"A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it."
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"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
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"Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States."
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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"Where students talk about being independent and on their own, you will find them practicing the most rigid conformity in dress, in speech, in moral attitudes, and in thinking. Sometimes they follow fashion at the expense of integrity. They dread to be alone. They do not want to stand out or be different. They want to conform. After they graduate from college, many of these young people want nothing more than a good job with a big firm, and a home somewhere in suburbia. But they don't find security."
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"Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed."
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"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth."
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"I believe that in the end the truth will conquer."
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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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"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth."
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"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."
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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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"The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this."
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"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
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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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"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
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