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Truth Quotes


"Tell the truth. It's your duty to do so. It's up to them how they take in the information. Keep it real."


"Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us." Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid."


"There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disseminated, such as books and churches, but they will not hear the Word of the Lord. Instead of receiving a message to satisfy their spiritual longings, they will hear a sermon on some current political or social problem, or a sermonette on art and literature. And so they wander from one place to another, going from hope to despair, and eventually giving up."


"There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty."


"If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine."


"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."


"Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live."


"Never compromise your perceptions and truth to validate the perceptions of others."


"What your critics say about you is unimportant. You are what you think of yourself."


"No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."


"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."


"The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later."



"Conscience is the absolute truthfulness perceived, which comes from Nothing, our true nature, and as such reflects things exactly the way they are."


"Life begins when we get tired of our own bullshit. We must all get bloody tired of our own bullshit, in order for our lives to begin."


"Face the truth or the truth will face you!"


"Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies."


"Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen."



"Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can "fool people some of the time, but not all of the time. ['Bribe payers' index']"


"To find the truth, try to follow the Socratic method. Just don't forget to follow your intuition and imagination."


"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"


"There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the brilliant, prickly, and iconoclastic late senator from New York. Apparently, Moynihan was in a heated argument with one of his colleagues over an issue, and the other senator, sensing he was on the losing side of the argument, blurted out: 'Well, you may disagree with me, Pat, I'm entitled to my own opinion." To which Moynihan frostily replied, "You are entitled to you own opinion, but you are not entitled to you own facts."


"Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach."


"Truths are dangerous," he said."Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear."
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