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Truth Quotes
"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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"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
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"Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing."
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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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"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
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"Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise."
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"Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth."
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"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."
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"There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible."
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"Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception."
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"When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy."
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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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"A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape."
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"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it."
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"Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit."
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"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that."
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"I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important."
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"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
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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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"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."
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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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"The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough."
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"All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth."
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"I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit."
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"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
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"What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises."
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"Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find."
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"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."
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