Truth Quotes
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'She keeps trying and you’ve got to be careful or you’ll find yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling the truth, but simply because you’re tired of disbelieving her.'
Dashiell Hammett
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But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
William Blake
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
Alice Hoffman
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
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To the novice, it doubtless seems a conundrum that lies can have their basis in fact. Consider, however, the individual’s need to have his or her desires met. This is fact. If lies are clever enough to fulfill this desire, they become a truth and, therefore, that much harder to dispel.
Eric Van Lustbader
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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.
Emil Cioran
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
Petrarch
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The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.
John McCain
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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
R.J. Rushdoony
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
William R. Alger
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.
Noah Porter
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What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.
Michael Jackson
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If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.
C. S. Lewis
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Some people are antagonized by the truth.
Julia Roberts
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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
Confucius
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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
Kenneth L. Pike
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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Pierce
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
Moliere
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The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'
Jennifer Konner
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We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.
Aaron Shepard
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I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
Alison Krauss