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Truth Quotes


"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."



"Naked truths aren't always pretty."


"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."


"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."


"I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are."


"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."


"I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth."


"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."


"There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth."


"Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction."


"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."


"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."


"I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it."


"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."


"We don't see the truth with our eyes, we see the truth with our heart."


"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."


"Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth."


"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."


"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."


"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."


"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."


"I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid."


"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction."


"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."


"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."



"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."


"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."


"I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test."


"I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth."


"In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth."
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