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Truth Quotes


"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."


"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."


"It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race."


"The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian."


"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."


"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."


"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."


"It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!"


"We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth."


"You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose."


"Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it."


"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."


"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."


"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."


"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."


"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."


"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."


"Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense."


"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."


"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."


"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception."


"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."


"The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas."


"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."


"Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified."


"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"



"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
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