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Truth Quotes


"Hammer the lies! Nail the truth."



"The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there."


"Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?"


"We want many things. But few things is needful."


"Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise."



"Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study."


"Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal from one's wife - than a good reputation is in utterly overshadowing disreputable habits."


"When I was no longer of the world, I would miss its extravagant beauty. I would miss the complex and charming layers of subterfuge by which the truth of the world's mysteries were withheld from us even as we were tantalized and enchanted by them. I would miss the kindness of good people who were compassionate when so many were pitiless, who made their way through so much corruption without being corrupted themselves, who eschewed envy in a world of envy, who eschewed greed in a world of greed, who valued truth and could not be drowned in a sea of lies, for they shone and, by the light they cast, they warmed me all my life."


"It takes extraordinary mental discipline to transmit human experience without perversion. Truth telling is unnatural. Lying is an important aspect of humanity. We lie to other people to prevent hurt feelings and we deceive ourselves in order to protect our noble sense of being a good person. Dishonesty and inaccuracy preserves our quest seeking uninterrupted personal pleasure. I shall eschew pleasure seeking and cultivate precision of mind and moral character that precious truth telling necessitates. Reading and writing, along with observing nature and studious reflection on vivid personal experiences is the process methodology that will bring me closest to discovering inviolate verity of existence and becoming a doyen for all the immaculate truth, beauty, and goodness in this world."


"Unless men of purpose, integrity, and faith stand together in unswerving loyalty to Jesus Christ, the future of the world is dark indeed."


"Lies and partial truths complicate life."


"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."


"Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell."


"Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth."


"I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave."


"To travel is to see the world as it is."



"There is no truth in this world that is worth insisting upon! Anything that is insisted upon is not the truth at all!"


"No light can cover the darkness of a liar's heart."


"Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm."


"There is no pre-mapped intellectual topology path leading to truth. Truth is a process of conducting a searching investigatory dialogue with oneself in an attempt to examine and discern the contents of a person's own mind. Every person must ask himself or herself what is essential in life."


"What he knows now is that guilt isn't the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV."


"The failure of the nation lies in the failure of its citizens."


"There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment."


"There is enough work for everybody."


"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."


"He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot."


"Your choices are your only freedom."


"Truth is most beautiful undraped."


"Well packaged, even a falsehood may seem true or feasible."


"You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you."


"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."


"Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg."
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