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Truth Quotes
"What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected."
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"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
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"The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty."
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"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."
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"Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the 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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"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
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"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
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"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."
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"I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth."
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"JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?LENORE: I smell trap.JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more?LENORE: I would kill for a shower."
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"Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously."
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"The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!"
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"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
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"A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it."
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"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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"Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed."
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"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
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"I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended."
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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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"What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts."
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"It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth."
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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
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"So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration."
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"Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in either case, they signify what I have been and what I am? One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth. Like light, truth dazzles. Untruth, on the other hand, is a beautiful dusk that enhances everything."
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"I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is."
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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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"To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth."
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