Truth Quotes
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I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.
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For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.
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The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.
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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.
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
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To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
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If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.
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I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.
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Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.
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A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.
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I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.
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Error is created; truth is eternal.
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Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
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You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
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The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
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Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn't read any books. But I didn't read any books. That's my story. That's my truth.
