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Truth Quotes


"The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white."


"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."


"It's a truth universally acknowledged..."


"Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans."


"I was meeting the ball better. The averages don't always tell the whole truth."


"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."


"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."


"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."


"It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are."


"Truth is, life is going shake you, it will rip you right out of your comfort zone;just when you feel settled, it will shock you with some trauma and make you face adversity in the most undesirable of ways... And here is the question of it all? What's it all for... Not many search long enough to know but the wise ask you.. Are you going to be a slave to your journey or the pioneer to your dream, if God handed you a lesson ;he knew before your time, your strength could endure i. so next time you doubt another thought or feed your heart with negative emotions think about it... You are here, alive, breathing and if that's not enough than you should think about what is."


"Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time - forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals."


"See? my mother would say, smiling at me and my sister, Carol, in turn. "We live in the greatest country on earth. See how lucky we are?And yet the ash continued swirling down, and the smells of death came through the windows, crept under the door, hung in our carpets and curtains, and screamed of her lie.Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed?These are the kinds of questions I ask myself now: in these dark, watery hours, when night and day are interchangeable. No. Not true."


"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."


"Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths."


"No one determines your truth but you.You can't paint your own self-portrait with someone else's hand."


"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."


"The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are - or they think we are."


"Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative."


"Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge."


"I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction."


"My truth could be very different than your truth."


"But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true."


"He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower."


"There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number."


"Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality."


"You cannot tell how it is, until you experience it."



"But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear."
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