"I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

Truman, Harry S on truth   

"Tell the truth and then run."

Proverb on truth
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"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."

Pirsig, Robert M. on truth   

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

Pancoast, Mal on truth
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"Telling someone the truth is a loving act."

Pancoast, Mal on truth
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"there is no such thing as a harmless truth."

Nunn, Gregory on truth   

"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."

Murrow, Edward R. on truth   

"Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember."

Mamet, David on truth
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"I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe."

Twain, Mark on truth
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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong."

Lincoln, Abraham on truth
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"There's nothing you can know that isn't known."

Lennon, John on truth   

"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."

Lincoln, Abraham on truth
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"A hair divides what is false and true."

Khayyam, Omar on truth
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"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup."

Proverb, Turkish on truth
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"A half truth is a whole lie."

Proverb, Yiddish on truth
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"If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics."

Rogers, Will on truth   

"If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?"

Tomlin, Lily on truth
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"It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear."

Thoreau, Henry David on truth   

"Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."

Thatcher, Margaret on truth
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"One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth."

Strachey, Lionel on truth   

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

Stevens, Wallace on truth
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"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on truth
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"Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!"

Sherman, Harold on truth   

"Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense."

Rosten, Leo on truth   

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on truth   

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always."

Schweitzer, Albert on truth
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"What is true belongs to me!"

Seneca on truth   

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."

Borne, Ludwig on truth
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"The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period."

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl) on truth
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"It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions."

Huxley, Thomas H. on truth   

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

Huxley, Aldous on truth
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"Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat."

Hill, Napoleon on truth   

"The truth is lived, not taught."

Hesse, Hermann on truth
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"There's no one thing that is true. They're all true."

Hemingway, Ernest on truth   

"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."

Hayakawa, S. I. on truth   

"True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."

Halifax, Edward F. on truth   

"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."

Dickens, Charles on truth   

"I am always going to be true to myself."

Diana, Princess of Wales on truth
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

Churchill, Winston on truth
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"What I tell you three times is true."

Carroll, Lewis on truth
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