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Truth Quotes
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
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"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
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"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
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"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
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"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
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"It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth."
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"The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it."
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"The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this."
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"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
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"Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States."
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"My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way."
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"Where students talk about being independent and on their own, you will find them practicing the most rigid conformity in dress, in speech, in moral attitudes, and in thinking. Sometimes they follow fashion at the expense of integrity. They dread to be alone. They do not want to stand out or be different. They want to conform. After they graduate from college, many of these young people want nothing more than a good job with a big firm, and a home somewhere in suburbia. But they don't find security."
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"Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed."
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"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."
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"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth."
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"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."
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"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
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"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."
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"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth."
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
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"I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate."
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"Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings."
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"There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible."
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"Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things."
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"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."
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"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism."
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"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight."
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"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."
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"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
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"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
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