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"Truth and virtue conquer."

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"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    Share

"The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on truth
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"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on truth
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"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."

Nin, Anais on truth    Share

"Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time."

Norris, Frank on truth    Share

"there is no such thing as a harmless truth."

Nunn, Gregory on truth    Share

"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie."

O'Malley, Austin on truth    Share

"Telling someone the truth is a loving act."

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

Pancoast, Mal on truth
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"Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it."

Pascal, Blaise on truth    Share

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers."

Penn, William on truth
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"I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak."

Pilgrim, Peace on truth    Share

"Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed."

Pindar on truth    Share

"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    Share

"It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling."

Pirsig, Robert M. on truth    Share

"The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are."

Pirsig, Robert M. on truth    Share

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

Planck, Max on truth    Share

"Truth is its own reward."

Plato on truth
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"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth."

Plato on truth
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"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."

Prentice, George D. on truth    Share

"Time tries truth."

Proverb on truth
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"Tell the truth and then run."

Proverb on truth
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"Truth is the daughter of time."

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"Truth fears nothing but concealment."

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"Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood."

Proverb, Danish on truth
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"A truth spoken before its time is dangerous."

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"It is the truth that irritates a person."

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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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"The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert."

Quesnel, Pasquier on truth    Share

"Tell the truth and shame the devil."

Rabelais, Francois on truth    Share

"You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said."

Rayburn, Sam on truth    Share

"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock."

Renard, Jules on truth    Share

"Truth is reality."

Richards, Mary Caroline on truth    Share

"Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless."

Richards, R. Scott on truth    Share

"People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true."

Ringer, Robert J. on truth
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"If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics."

Rogers, Will on truth    Share

"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on truth
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