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Truth Quotes
"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."
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"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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"Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth."
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"Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all."
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"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
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"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
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"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
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"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
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"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."
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"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
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"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
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"Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't."
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"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
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"All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth."
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"There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny."
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"The most powerful element in advertising is the truth."
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"The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do."
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"The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert."
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"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."
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"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."
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"I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth."
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"To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor."
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"The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within."
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"It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar."
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"The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth."
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"Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves."
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"The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door."
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