Truth Quotes
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
Scott Westerfeld
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A half-truth is a whole lie
Yiddish Proverb
Subject: Lies Quotes :: Truth QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth
William Mathews
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Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth
Wilfred Owen
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone
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If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock at your door, you will not be able to open the door and accept it.
Udana Sutta
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If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock at your door, you will not be able to open the door and accept it.
Udana Sutta
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Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument
Tryon Edwards
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas More
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton
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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt
Thomas Merton
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It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors
Thomas Henry Huxley
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The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret fr...
Starhawk
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The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s d...
Senator John Kerry
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This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.
Senator John Kerry
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The Administration’s willingness to consistently abandon the truth has done great damage. Americans are less willing to listen – less likely to trust or take anything that is said in Washington seriously.
Senator John Kerry
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The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.
Senator John Kerry
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Sincere forgiveness isn`t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don`t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
Sara Paddison
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You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You will bring with you here your common sense.
Russell R. Leggett
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
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There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.
Richard Bach
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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In quarreling the truth is always lost
Publilius Syrus
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
Proverb
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
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I think a man`s duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life
Plato
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
