Truth Quotes
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The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.
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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
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Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.
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In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
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Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
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The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more often than not, people will assume that the person is white. That assumption indicates an uncomfortable truth: in our society, whiteness determines humanity.
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The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.
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God is in the truth.
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There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.
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Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.
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I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
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Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
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The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
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The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.
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It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
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People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.
