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Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.
– Taylor Branch
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When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.
– Andre P. Brink
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Truth is mighty and will prevail.
– Thomas Brooks
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Propaganda, however legitimate, can speak no louder than the truth.
– Sterling Brown
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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
– Richard de Bury
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To speak the Truth, tis a thorough Aversion to Labor that makes People file off to N Carolina, where Plenty and a Warm Sun confirm them in their Disposition to Laziness for their whole Lives.
– William Byrd
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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
– Al Capp
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I try to tell the truth.
– Tucker Carlson
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
– Alexis Carrel
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In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.
– Benny Carter
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
– Barbara Cartland
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
– Joyce Cary
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The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.
– Saxby Chambliss
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
– Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
– Lord Chesterfield
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I didn't mean to be a role model. I just speak my truth. I guess speaking from your heart really creates a huge impact, and if I can encourage people to do that, then I would love to be a role model. If I could encourage people to use their voices loudly, then that's my reward.
– Margaret Cho
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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Poetry lies its way to the truth.
– John Ciardi
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It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
– Emile M. Cioran
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To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
– Emile M. Cioran
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Do you want the truth or the politically correct version? The truth is that I go plastic, it's so much easier. And I like to put the bags over my head at night when I sleep, which I think all the kids at home should try. Kidding!!
– George Clooney
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I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.
– George Clooney
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They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
– George Clooney
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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
– Alan Cohen
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The WWF knows I have been telling the truth since the beginning, and they really can't handle someone who has the truth on their side.
– Tom Cole
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Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
– Robert Collier
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Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
– Cyril Connolly
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I think once you accept that you have the answer to everything, you can do anything to bring it about because your enemies are trying to stop you, are enemies of reason, of truth of everything - enemies of the future. You represent the people, you represent the nation, you represent everything that is good and that entitles you to destroy the bad people.
– Robert Conquest
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The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
– Kent Conrad
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
– Larry Craig
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
– Mario Cuomo
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A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
– James Callaghan
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
– Orson Scott Card
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It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
– Earl of Chesterfield
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Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
– Madonna Ciccone
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The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
– Mary Higgins Clark
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Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.
– Jay Cocks
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
– William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
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Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
– Anthony Collins
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Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.
– James Cone
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I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.
– Michael Connelly
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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
– Howard Crosby
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I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
– Penelope Cruz
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
– Edward Dahlberg
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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
– Robertson Davies
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As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
– Howard Dean
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At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
– Howard Dean
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
– Demosthenes
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Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathematics. The object of mathematics is not, and cannot be, mathematical certainty. It is not even mathematical truth, certain or otherwise. It is, and must be, mathematical explanation.
– David Deutsch
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Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.
– David Deutsch
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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.
– John Donne
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Every Aryan should become computer literate, become connected to the Internet, and learn how to use it to spread our truth and awaken our race. Internet proficiency is as important to our cause as was learning to use a sword in the Middle Ages, or a long rifle in the American Revolution.
– David Duke
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The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.
– David Duke
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
– Lawrence Durrell
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This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
– Elmer Davis
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Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.
– Midge Decter
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When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth.
– Sarah Louise Delany
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All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
– Alan Dershowitz
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The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.
– Alan Dershowitz
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Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
– Scott Dixon
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I had to follow that road, even if my steps were confused and indecisive. Otherwise I would not remain a man in my own eyes. For if I know something with certainty and I am convinced of its truth, how can I deny it, hide it from my closest friends; from the world and from myself?
– Milovan Djilas
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
– Adam Duritz
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A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
– Mary Baker Eddy
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Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
– Mary Baker Eddy
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
– Tryon Edwards
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Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the of the inquiring constructive mind.
– Albert Einstein
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
– Albert Einstein
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
– Albert Einstein
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
– Albert Einstein
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
– Paul Eldridge
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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths -your abilities and your failings.
– T. S. Eliot
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The truth in the matter lies in the fact that anything repeated too long without variation tends to become boring.
– Don Ellis
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-truth is the essence of heroism.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.
– Robert Evans
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In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
– Nelson Eddy
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There is a continuing, mandatory need for heresy in its most profound sense; for freedom to choose and follow truth wherever it leads.
– William Edelen
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Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.
– Kurt Eisner
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There is wisdom in truth but not always happiness in knowledge.
– John Ellis
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Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
– John Eyberg
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction.
– William Faulkner
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
– William Faulkner
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Paint me as I am, said Cromwell, Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you find it, Less than truth my soul abhors.
– James Thomas Fields
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Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
– Gerald R. Ford
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The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
– Michel Foucault
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Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
– Anne Frank
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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
– John Hope Franklin
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This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
– Bill Frist
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
– Christopher Fry
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
– Northrop Frye
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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
– Eliza Farnham
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
– Helen Fielding
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The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
– Michael Flanders
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Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.
– Tom Flynn
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A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.
– Paula Fox
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Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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