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Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Best Quotes about Truth

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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.

Huxley, Aldous

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.

Bradshaw, John

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell