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Truth Quotes
"No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear."
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"Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience."
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"The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true."
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"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
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"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."
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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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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."
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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."
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"After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear."
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"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
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"When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth."
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"A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation."
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"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
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"The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it."
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"John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth."
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"The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth."
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"But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job."
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"We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also."
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"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."
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"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."
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"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity."
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"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."
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"Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself."
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"Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be."
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"To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth."
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"Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth."
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"That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful."
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"The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections."
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"Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all."
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"Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit."
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