975 private quotes tagged truth

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.” — Phil McGraw

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“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.” — Alfred Adler

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“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” — Stephen King

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“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.” — George Canning

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“The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.” — Carly Fiorina

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“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.” — Thomas Sowell

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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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“To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.” — Bill Maher

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“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” — Chief Joseph

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“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.” — Charles Dickens

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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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“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.” — Robert Brault

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“Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.” — Henry Rollins

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“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.” — Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.” — Adolf Loos

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“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

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“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Jesus Christ

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“The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?” — E. O. Wilson

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