Truth Quotes
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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
Harry Frankfurt
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
Errol Morris
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Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
Paul Harding
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The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.
Hillary Clinton
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The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
Bernard Crick
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The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for the truth. That is why they got rid of me too: they feared me, for wickedness fears Truth.
Christina Stead
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Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
Michel Foucault
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Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.
Anne Monroe
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
Thomas Carlyle
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Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.
Ephrem the Syrian
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When you tell the truth, you don't have to change your testimony.
Andrew Gillum
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God knows the truth in all of this, and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters. Jesus was persecuted, and I'm going to get persecuted, ya know?
Heidi Montag
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All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
Errol Morris
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When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?
Brady Quinn
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It was the truth, but that made it no more palatable.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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Simple is the language of truth.
Seneca the Younger
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Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.
Ernest Holmes
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When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.
Muhammad Ali
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
Richard Whately
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There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
Swami Sivananda
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Blasphemy and sedition meaning the truth about Church and State.
George Bernard Shaw
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Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.
Brigham Young
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Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.
Michel Foucault