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Truth Quotes
"I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it."
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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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"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."
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"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth."
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"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."
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"The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ..."
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"Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn't enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that's not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end."
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"To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face."
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
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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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"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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"Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you."
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"An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy."
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"I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth."
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"It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true."
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"The most powerful element in advertising is the truth."
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"I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms."
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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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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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"When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth."
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"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."
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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."
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"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."
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"I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind."
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