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Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
- Richard M. Nixon
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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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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
- Umberto Eco
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I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.
- Brian Aldiss
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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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If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.
- Denis Johnson
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Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
- John Howard
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We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
- John Howard
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
- William Osler
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
- Abbey Lincoln
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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
- Pablo Picasso
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
- Thomas Mann
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
- Chanakya
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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
- Herman Melville
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We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.
- John Sherman Cooper
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
- Jack Bowman
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
- Samuel Butler
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There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
- Louis Farrakhan
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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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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
- Barbara Boxer
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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
- Lillian Hellman
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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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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
- Iris Murdoch
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
- Blaise Pascal
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
- Alfred Adler
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I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
- Anita Desai
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We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.
- Judd Rose
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
- H. P. Lovecraft
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There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
- Kenneth Starr
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
- E. T. Bell
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
- Adrienne Rich
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As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
- Adolph Green
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
- Kahlil Gibran
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The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
- Luther Burbank
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
- Philip James Bailey
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
- W. Clement Stone
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
- Aristotle
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
- Charles Bradlaugh
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
- A. B. Yehoshua
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
- Lucian Freud
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Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
- William Howard Taft
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It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
- Robert Fisk
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
- Jack Schwartz
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