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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
– David Bowie
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The truth is lived, not taught.
– Hermann Hesse
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The truth is more important than the facts.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
– Susan Sontag
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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
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The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
– Ken Kesey
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
– B. C. Forbes
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The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
– Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
– Charles Lamb
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The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
– Ang Lee
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The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
– Newt Gingrich
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
– Vincent D'Onofrio
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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
– Henry David Thoreau
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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
– Simone Weil
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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
– Jack Kemp
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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
– Lewis Thomas
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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
– Thomas Huxley
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The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
– James Allen
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
– Carl Bernstein
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
– Henry David Thoreau
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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
– Peter Abelard
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
– Abu Bakr
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
– Dorothy L. Sayers
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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
– Daniel Craig
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
– Tertullian
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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
– Bodhidharma
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The color of truth is gray.
– Andre Gide
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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.
– Barbra Streisand
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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
– Henry A. Wallace
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
– Francois Rabelais
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Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
– Gerald R. Ford
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Tell the children the truth.
– Bob Marley
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Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
– Shel Silverstein
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Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
– Billy Corgan
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
– Vivien Leigh
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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.
– Elizabeth Kenny
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
– James Broughton
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
– Jane Austen
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Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
– Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
– Katherine Mansfield
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
– Simone de Beauvoir
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Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
– Beth Ditto
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
– Jean-Luc Godard
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
– P. J. O'Rourke
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
– Andy Rooney
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
– Danica McKellar
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People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
– David Petraeus
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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
– Hu Shih
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
– V. S. Naipaul
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
– E. M. Forster
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One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?
– Emma Thompson
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OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?
– Teena Marie
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
– A. N. Wilson
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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
– William Penn
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Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
– Louis Farrakhan
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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
– Franz Kafka
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
– Martha Beck
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
– Xenophanes
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.
– Javier Bardem
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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
– Whitney Houston
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
– Edith Stein
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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
– Leslie Fiedler
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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
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
– James Thurber
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
– William Butler Yeats
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
– Aldous Huxley
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
– Ludwig Borne
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.
– Michael Moore
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Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
– Richard M. Nixon
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Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
– NeNe Leakes
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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
– Virginia Woolf
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Language is the house of the truth of Being.
– Martin Heidegger
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Justice is the truth in action.
– Joseph Joubert
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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
– Horace Walpole
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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
– Blaise Pascal
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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
– John Bradshaw
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
– R. Lee Ermey
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It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
– Michael Jackson
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It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
– Sarah Silverman
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It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
– Mitt Romney
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
– M. Russell Ballard
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
– Sophocles
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
– Doris Lessing
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It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
– Sargent Shriver
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
– George Santayana
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
– John Locke
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
– Samuel Johnson
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
– H. L. Mencken
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
– Thomas Paine
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It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
– Friedrich Schiller
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