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Truth Quotes

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"Caricature is rough truth."
George Meredith
"Caricature is rough truth."
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"When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached."
Gottfried Leibniz
"When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached."
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"You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!"
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
"You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!"
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"Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong."
Shannon L. Alder
"Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong."
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"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."
Friedrich Schiller
"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."
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"When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves."
Dogen
"When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves."
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"The first reaction to truth is hatred."
Tertullian
"The first reaction to truth is hatred."
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"I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened."
Ted Demme
"I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened."
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"You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Anonymous
"You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
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"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
Lech Walesa
"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Mark Twain
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
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"Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it."
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"An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."
Jimmy Johnson
"An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."
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"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
John Locke
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
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"Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful."
James Hall
"Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful."
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"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
George Berkeley
"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
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"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
Pearl Bailey
"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
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"There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you."
Seamus Heaney
"There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you."
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"It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime."
Lee Atwater
"It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime."
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"Truth disappears with the telling of it."
Lawrence Durrell
"Truth disappears with the telling of it."
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"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves."
Robert Anton Wilson
"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves."
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"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold."
Theodore Parker
"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold."
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"Truth is always a delusion."
Friedrich Durrenmatt
"Truth is always a delusion."
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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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"Usually we are saying only part of the truth."
Erno Rubik
"Usually we are saying only part of the truth."
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"It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness."
Robert G. Menzies
"It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness."
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"As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me."
Henry Rollins
"As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me."
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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."
Anne Hutchinson
"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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"Truth is a great flirt."
Franz Liszt
"Truth is a great flirt."
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"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."
John Milton
"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."
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"Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth."
Meg White
"Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth."
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"Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all."
Dixie Lee Ray
"Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all."
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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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"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."
Edith Sitwell
"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."
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"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."
Orson Welles
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."
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"Truth is in things, and not in words."
Herman Melville
"Truth is in things, and not in words."
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"The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us."
Peter Ustinov
"The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us."
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"Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment."
Roger Bacon
"Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment."
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"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
Tom Stoppard
"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
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"I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity."
Igor Stravinsky
"I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity."
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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."
Richard Morris
"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 truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
Soren Kierkegaard
"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
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"It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can."
Sargent Shriver
"It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can."
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"My longing for truth was a single prayer."
Edith Stein
"My longing for truth was a single prayer."
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"You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth."
Terry Gilliam
"You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth."
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"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."
Plato
"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."
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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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"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."
William Lloyd Garrison
"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."
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"Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
Henrik Ibsen
"Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
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"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good."
Alan Cohen
"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good."
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