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Truth Quotes
"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
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"Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth."
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"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers."
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"There is no original truth, only original error."
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"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
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"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."
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"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable."
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"People care much more for how things look than how things are."
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"I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days."
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"It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words."
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"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold."
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"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
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"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."
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"Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that."
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"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."
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"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
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"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
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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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"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."
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"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
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"A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths."
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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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"The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It don't move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is."
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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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"You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said."
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