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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
– Martha Gellhorn
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
– Natalie Goldberg
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To tell the truth is revolutionary.
– Antonio Gramsci
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
– George Harrison
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Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
– Helen Hayes
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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
– Helen Hayes
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Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
– Jimi Hendrix
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
– Patrick Henry
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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
– Frank Herbert
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
– Eric Hoffer
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
– J. Edgar Hoover
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
– Anthony Hope
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
– Horace
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We are free to yield to truth.
– Horace
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Live truth instead of professing it.
– Elbert Hubbard
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
– Aldous Huxley
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
– Aldous Huxley
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
– Aldous Huxley
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
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God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
– King Hussein
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
– Harlan Howard
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
– Alija Izetbegovic
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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
– Louis Kahn
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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
– Patrick Kavanagh
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
– John Keats
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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
– John F. Kennedy
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
– John F. Kennedy
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
– Stephen King
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
– Stephen King
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
– Barbara Kingsolver
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
– Barbara Kingsolver
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
– Karl Kraus
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A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
– Robert Kiyosaki
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The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
– Mike Krzyzewski
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
– Doris Lessing
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
– C. S. Lewis
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
– C. S. Lewis
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
– C. S. Lewis
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Truth is the daughter of Time.
– Abraham Lincoln
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
– John Locke
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
– John Locke
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
– John Locke
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
– James Russell Lowell
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Light is the symbol of truth.
– James Russell Lowell
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
– James Russell Lowell
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
– James Russell Lowell
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
– James Russell Lowell
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
– James Russell Lowell
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
– John LeCarre
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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
– Audre Lorde
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I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
– Bela Lugosi
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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
– Horace Mann
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
– Horace Mann
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Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
– Marilyn Manson
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
– Abraham Maslow
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
– W. Somerset Maugham
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
– W. Somerset Maugham
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
– Andre Maurois
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One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
– Mencius
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
– H. L. Mencken
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
– H. L. Mencken
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
– H. L. Mencken
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
– Thomas Merton
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
– John Stuart Mill
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Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
– Alice Miller
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The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.
– Sun Myung Moon
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
– Thomas Moore
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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
– Jim Morrison
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The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
– Lewis Mumford
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
– Benito Mussolini
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
– Maimonides
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Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
– Franz Marc
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We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
– Phillip C. McGraw
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
– Anthony de Mello
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It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
– Robert G. Menzies
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I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
– Kelly Miller
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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
– Horatio Nelson
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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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