Truth Quotes
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We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.
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Alas! the great world goes its way,And takes its truth from each new day;They do not quit, nor can retain,Far less consider it again.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
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Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.
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Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth.
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To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
