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Truth Quotes


"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."


"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."


"The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth."


"Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players."


"The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."


"The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert."


"I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found."



"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."


"When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth."


"I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do."


"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."


"Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth."


"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."


"We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account."


"Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?"


"I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book."


"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."


"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."


"I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is."


"Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense."


"The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth."


"The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world."


"My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth."


"Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist."
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