975 private quotes tagged truth

“Truth is what works.” — William James

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“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.” — Emily Dickinson

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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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“I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.” — Orson Welles

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

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“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.” — James Russell Lowell

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“There is no truth. There is only perception.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.” — Nikolai Berdyaev

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“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.” — George Harrison

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“When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.” — Amber Frey

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