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Truth Quotes


"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards."


"I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out."


"But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man."


"One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved."


"Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth."


"All generalizations are false, including this one."


"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."


"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."


"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."


"Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you."


"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."


"The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real."


"I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author."


"It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth."



"There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with 'toys' (interaction with people)."


"I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it."


"The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever."


"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."


"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."


"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth."


"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out."


"Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route."


"It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument."


"This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials."


"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."


"I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics."


"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth."


"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."


"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."


"In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions."
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