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Truth Quotes

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"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
Mahatma Gandhi
"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
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"Truth is a big concept."
Lukas Foss
"Truth is a big concept."
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"Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself."
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
"Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself."
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"Sincerity is moral truth."
George Henry Lewes
"Sincerity is moral truth."
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"Naked truths aren't always pretty."
Colleen Hoover
"Naked truths aren't always pretty."
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"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."
Dick Thornburgh
"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."
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"A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity."
Alain Badiou
"A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity."
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"Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines."
William Hamilton
"Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines."
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"Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile."
Jerry B. Jenkins
"Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile."
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"The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet."
Bill Cosby
"The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet."
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"I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are."
Victor Garber
"I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are."
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"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."
William Hazlitt
"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."
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"I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy."
Lee Child
"I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy."
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"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."
James Russell Lowell
"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."
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"Truth never was indebted to a lie."
Edward Young
"Truth never was indebted to a lie."
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"A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it."
Stanley Baldwin
"A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it."
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"I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth."
Edward Burnett Tylor
"I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth."
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"I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth."
Kylie Bax
"I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth."
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"Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country."
Andrew Lloyd Webber
"Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country."
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"Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone."
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone."
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"In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other's blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven's love."
Aberjhani
"In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other's blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven's love."
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"So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police."
Tom Lantos
"So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police."
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"The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself."
William Allen White
"The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself."
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"There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth."
Ward Churchill
"There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth."
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"Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction."
Remy de Gourmont
"Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction."
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"Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling."
Jeremy Northam
"Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling."
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"At least I know the truth, I gritted back. "I'm not the one who's being lied to. His brow furrowed, and I spat the truth at him."
Julie Kagawa
"At least I know the truth, I gritted back. "I'm not the one who's being lied to. His brow furrowed, and I spat the truth at him."
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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
Josh Billings
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
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"I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it."
Armistead Maupin
"I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it."
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"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."
Denis Diderot
"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."
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"If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth."
Walid Jumblatt
"If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth."
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"We don't see the truth with our eyes, we see the truth with our heart."
Kate McGahan
"We don't see the truth with our eyes, we see the truth with our heart."
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"This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth."
Lee Grant
"This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth."
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"There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients."
Mary Hart
"There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients."
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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."
W. Somerset Maugham
"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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"Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth."
Will Rogers
"Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth."
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"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."
Dean Stanley
"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
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"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."
Marcus Aurelius
"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."
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"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
Shana Alexander
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
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"I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong."
Burt Bacharach
"I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong."
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"I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid."
Bobby Vinton
"I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid."
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"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction."
Georges Bataille
"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction."
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"To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are."
Umberto Eco
"To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are."
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"Truth recognizes truth, just as a man with real talent is the first to recognize another with real talent. Likewise, superficiality attracts others with an artificial surface. Only the superficial applaud the superficial. A man of true substance rejects the superficial because he seeks only truth and depth. Based on this reasoning, you can easily measure the weight of any man's character just by observing who he admires."
Suzy Kassem
"Truth recognizes truth, just as a man with real talent is the first to recognize another with real talent. Likewise, superficiality attracts others with an artificial surface. Only the superficial applaud the superficial. A man of true substance rejects the superficial because he seeks only truth and depth. Based on this reasoning, you can easily measure the weight of any man's character just by observing who he admires."
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"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."
Charles Olson
"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."
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"Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis."
Brad Holland
"Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis."
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"I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test."
Paula Jones
"I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test."
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"I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth."
Stanley Baldwin
"I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth."
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"In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth."
Peter Matthiessen
"In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth."
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