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Truth Quotes
"A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths."
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"Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit."
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"One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth."
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"Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood."
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"The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick."
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"Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth."
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"No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so."
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"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying."
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"In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds."
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"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful."
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"Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel."
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"If only they would not look at one so-What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger than a man's thumb-in their eyes!"
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"Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative."
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"I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it."
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"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
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"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."
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"Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference."
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"Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans."
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"The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S."
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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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"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
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"I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy."
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"Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world."
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"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"
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"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards."
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"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
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