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"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."
Edward Tufte
"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."
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"The first reaction to truth is hatred."
Tertullian
"The first reaction to truth is hatred."
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"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."
Nigella Lawson
"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."
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"The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it."
Donald Rumsfeld
"The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it."
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"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."
John Masefield
"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."
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"When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete."
Vaclav Havel
"When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete."
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"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
Horace Walpole
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
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"For great is truth, and shall prevail."
Thomas Brooks
"For great is truth, and shall prevail."
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"Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy."
Phillip E. Johnson
"Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy."
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"I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth."
Nicholas Lea
"I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth."
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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
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"While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales."
Jonathan Dimbleby
"While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales."
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"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job."
Samuel Goldwyn
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job."
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"The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall."
Allison Krauss
"The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall."
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"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."
Frances Wright
"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."
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"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
A. Philip Randolph
"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
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"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth."
Lillian Hellman
"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth."
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"They say so' is half a lie."
Thomas Fuller
"They say so' is half a lie."
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"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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"Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves."
Francis Bond Head
"Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves."
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"If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even."
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"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."
Graham Greene
"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."
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"The misconception of something being a certainty sometimes gets to me until I remember we can change most things consciously."
Jay Woodman
"The misconception of something being a certainty sometimes gets to me until I remember we can change most things consciously."
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"Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."
Samuel Johnson
"Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."
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"The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure."
Bodhidharma
"The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure."
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"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
Carl Bernstein
"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
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"There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them."
William Scott
"There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them."
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"He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue."
Shawn Fanning
"He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue."
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"Truth is mighty and will prevail."
Thomas Brooks
"Truth is mighty and will prevail."
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"Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers."
Ron Silver
"Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers."
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"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
Alfred Adler
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
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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."
Martha Gellhorn
"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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"There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison."
Andre Maurois
"There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison."
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"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
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"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
Tacitus
"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
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"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few."
George Berkeley
"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few."
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"I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit."
Jeanne Calment
"I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit."
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"Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not."
Francis Wright
"Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not."
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"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."
Xun Zi
"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."
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"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
Wallace Stevens
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
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"The best mind-altering drug is the truth."
Lily Tomlin
"The best mind-altering drug is the truth."
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"There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital."
Al Capp
"There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital."
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"The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself."
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"For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen."
John Dryden
"For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen."
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"There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one."
Abraham Lincoln
"There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one."
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"Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well."
Brad Holland
"Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well."
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"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."
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"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable."
Mark Twain
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable."
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"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
Dave Van Ronk
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
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"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
Emily Dickinson
"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
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