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Truth Quotes
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
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"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
30
"Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way."
30
"Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth."
30
"The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth."
30
"Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth."
30
"In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth."
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"See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers."
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"Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things."
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"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
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"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
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"Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be."
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"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."
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"The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows."
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"Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful."
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"The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens."
28
"I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth."
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"I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly."
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"I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get."
28
"Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good."
28
"I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author."
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"You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite."
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"Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always."
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"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."
28
"I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had."
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"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."
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