Truth Quotes
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
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We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.
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Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won’t be distracted by nuance or even truth.
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When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.
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I must find a truth that is true for me.
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We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement age. But we need to tell the truth about the fact that when we set the retirement age at age 65 in America, life expectancy was only 62.
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Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.
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The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.
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There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.
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Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
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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.
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Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.
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These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.
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When someone tells you the truth about something, they become loveable.
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It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
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Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between human and not, the means by which we learn. And while people use words to teach, to express art, to proclaim truths, at the most basic level, people use words to simply say: I am here.
