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Truth Quotes


"You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!"


"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice."



"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."



"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"


"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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."


"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."


"Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't."


"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."



"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."


"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers."


"Language is the house of the truth of Being."


"My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way."


"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."


"I want to know the truth to set it free."



"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."



"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."


"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."


"Let's agree to be honest from the start. I would rather feel the disappointment that comes with the realization that we are incompatible than to feel the pain and betrayal that comes with finding out that you're full of crap."


"I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really."



"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."


"All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth."



"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."


"One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may."


"Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance."


"Truth starts with truth and ends with truth."


"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."


"The Apocalypse . . . a storm warning that carries a booming jolt of truth-Trouble ahead, prepare to meet thy God!-followed by the voice of the Gentle Shepherd-Come!"


"A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth."


"It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness."
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