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Truth Quotes
"It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance."
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"I have, and always will, respect people that keep it real no matter what. Most people say 'Just keep it real with me, but the fact of the matter is this: Most people can't handle the truth, don't want to accept the truth, deny the truth, or simply aren't willing to face THEIR truth. The next time that you tell somebody to be honest with you, make sure that you mean what you say. Have the courage to pay more attention, listen, and observe. But have greater courage to acknowledge 'what is and face YOUR truth with boldness. The truth is better than a lie any day. Be fearless!"
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"Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser."
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"A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind."
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"The lie, of course, is more interesting."
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"Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it."
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"You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth."
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"The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth."
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"As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook."
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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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"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
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"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."
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"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."
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"In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth."
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"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
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"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."
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"The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth."
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"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
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"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
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"Where students talk about being independent and on their own, you will find them practicing the most rigid conformity in dress, in speech, in moral attitudes, and in thinking. Sometimes they follow fashion at the expense of integrity. They dread to be alone. They do not want to stand out or be different. They want to conform. After they graduate from college, many of these young people want nothing more than a good job with a big firm, and a home somewhere in suburbia. But they don't find security."
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"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
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"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."
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"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
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"As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last."
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"The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this."
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"Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it."
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"I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across."
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