I Know The Truth Quotes

• In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.

  Loung Ung

  Heart, Mean, Reality

  Loung Ung (2012). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, Random House

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• I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.

  Julie Garwood

  I Love You, Falling In Love, Hurt

  Julie Garwood (1997). “The Wedding”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  William Blake

  Trust, Courage, Truth

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• Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

  Christian Bale

  Misunderstood, Actors, Knows

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Truth, Fighting

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2011

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• I know where Im going, and I know where Ive been.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Free Yourself, Knows

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

  Samuel Butler

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.377, The Floating Press

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• I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

  Sylvia Plath

  New York, Junior Year, Bell Jar

  The Bell Jar ch. 1 (1963)

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• I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Science

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Ch. 14, 1897.

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• I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

  Muhammad Ali

  Christian, Believe, Moving

  "The real reason Muhammad Ali converted to Islam" by Jonathan Eig, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2017.

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• I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work. One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first. It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you. I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one.

  Julie Garwood

  Hurt, Falling In Love, Attitude

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• I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and weirder and infinitely more strange, and that, in some way, I already know the truth. But I think that's just how the world has always been. And even now I know the truth, the world still seems cheap and shoddy. Different world, different shoddy, but that's how it feels.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Different, World

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Five: 7 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Pain, Stupid, Men

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.245, Bloomsbury Publishing

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