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"We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are."

Truman, Harry S on truth    Share


"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."

Twain, Mark on truth
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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

Twain, Mark 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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"Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth."

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"Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time."

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"No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies."

Twain, Mark on truth
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"The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences."

Unknown, Source on truth
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"The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful."

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"Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth."

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"Truth comes only to a prepared mind."

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"When in doubt, tell the truth."

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"Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth."

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"Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half."

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"Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester."

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"Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it."

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"I have seen the truth and it makes no sense."

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"Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof."

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"Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh."

Valery, Paul on truth
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"To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted."

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"Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe."

Voltaire on truth
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"To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful."

Walters, Hellmut on truth    Share

"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."

Watts, Alan W. on truth    Share

"In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie."

Weil, Simone on truth    Share

"I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."

West, Jessamyn on truth    Share

"As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?"

Whately, Richard on truth    Share

"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."

Whately, Richard on truth
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"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."

Whitehead, Alfred North on truth
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"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

Whitman, Walt on truth    Share

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple"

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you."

Wilder, Billy on truth
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"One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on truth    Share

"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth."

Woolf, Virginia on truth    Share

"The truth is more important than the facts."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on truth    Share

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."

Wright, Orville on truth    Share

"Truth is exact correspondence with reality."

Yogananda, Paramahansa on truth    Share

"The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it."

Zola, Emile on truth    Share

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