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Truth Quotes
!["While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the clear sighted are constrained by the credulous and when the "followers are browbeating the "knowers", the cat is among the pigeons and the age of obscuration is under way. Obviously "something wicked this way comes" ['His master's voice']"](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the clear sighted are constrained by the credulous and when the "followers are browbeating the "knowers", the cat is among the pigeons and the age of obscuration is under way. Obviously "something wicked this way comes" ['His master's voice']"
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"Truth is an acquired taste."
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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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"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."
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"For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
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"Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll."
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"The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth."
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"I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times."
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"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."
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"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."
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"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
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"One of the protestor's sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL'S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after."
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"All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true."
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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
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"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."
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"Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all."
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"The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people."
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"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."
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"I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them."
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"The truth can't hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water."
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"It is a fact that the USA corporate government routinely lies to its mass population."
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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"There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans."
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception."
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"All generalizations are false, including this one."
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"The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar."
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"The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it."
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"When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth."
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"I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed."
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"To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor."
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"No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions."
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"Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is inside to be realized."
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"I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned."
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