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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
– Chief Joseph
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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
– Mason Cooley
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Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
– David Icke
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Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
– Joyce Meyer
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In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
– June Jordan
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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
– Michael Musto
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
– Sir William Osler
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In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
– Stephen Colbert
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In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.
– Suze Orman
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
– Samuel Johnson
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In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
– Hypatia
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
– A. Philip Randolph
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
– Thomas Jefferson
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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
– Epictetus
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
– Virginia Woolf
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
– James Madison
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
– Pablo Picasso
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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
– Hans Eysenck
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
– Hunter S. Thompson
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Ideas are, in truth, force.
– Henry James
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I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.
– Regis Philbin
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I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
– T. E. Lawrence
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I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.
– Scott Ritter
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I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.
– Channing Tatum
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I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.
– Kevin O'Leary
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I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.
– Charlie Kaufman
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
– Malcolm X
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I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.
– Francis Drake
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I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.
– Katy Perry
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I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'
– Jamie Foxx
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I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.
– Susan Orlean
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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
– Adlai Stevenson
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I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
– William Lloyd Garrison
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I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.
– Kevin O'Leary
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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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I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
– Robert De Niro
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I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
– Jesus Christ
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I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
– Brittany Murphy
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
– Michel de Montaigne
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
– Michel de Montaigne
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
– Flannery O'Connor
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I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
– James Otis
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
– Shakira
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I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.
– Kinky Friedman
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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
– George McGovern
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I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
– Bill Hicks
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I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
– Daniel Craig
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I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
– Bob Kane
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.
– Donald Cargill
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
– Giacomo Casanova
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
– Hunter S. Thompson
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
– Venus Williams
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
– A. N. Wilson
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I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.
– Steve Martin
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I can take any truth just don't lie to me.
– Barbra Streisand
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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
– Molly Ivins
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I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
– Jesus Christ
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I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
– Ellen DeGeneres
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I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.
– Luke Scott
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
– Igor Stravinsky
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I always come from truth.
– Tiger Woods
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Humility is truth.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
– Charles Peguy
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
– Coco Chanel
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Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
– Justin Timberlake
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
– Ludwig Borne
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
– Tom Stoppard
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
– Ambrose Bierce
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
– John Dryden
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
– Marie de France
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Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
– Ellen DeGeneres
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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
– George Saunders
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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
– George Eliot
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
– Bill Gates
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Exactitude is not truth.
– Henri Matisse
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
– Albert Schweitzer
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Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
– Michael Jackson
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Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.
– Miriam Makeba
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Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
– Aesop
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Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
– Jeanne Moreau
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
– Samuel Johnson
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Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
– David Duchovny
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Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
– Christopher Hitchens
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Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
– Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
– Abdolkarim Soroush
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Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
– Swami Sivananda
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
– Jeanette Winterson
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
– Laura Linney
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Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
– Mary Todd Lincoln
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
– Joan of Arc
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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
– Yukio Mishima
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But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
– William Shatner
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
– Wole Soyinka
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