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• Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Perfect, Needs

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• Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Lying

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• I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Literary Theory, Yale

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Truth, Honesty, Fancy

  Adlai E. Stevenson's commencement address at Michigan State University, as quoted in The New York Times, June 9, 1958.

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• The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Truth, Men, Culture

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• It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it

  William Temple

  Important, Tests, Helping

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• Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

  Robert Anthony

  Life, Motivational, Procrastination

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• The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Acceptance, Ideas, Competition

  Abrams v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1919)

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• Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.

  John Piper

  Lying, Fall, Broken

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• The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).

  David Bohm

  Truth, Science, Irrelevance

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.42, Routledge

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• Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

  Matthew Kelly

  Crush, Education, Spirit

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.94, BookBaby

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• Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.

  John Calvin

  Wise, Men, Simplicity

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• Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

  John Howard

  Political, Absolute Truth, Absolutes

  ABC Radio "AM" program, August 25, 1995.

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• Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

  William Ellery Channing

  Integrity, Suffering, Done

  William Ellery Channing, William Henry Channing (1860). “Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts ...”, p.424

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• The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

  Andre Dubus

  Joy, Sorrow, Life Is

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• The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere

  Jeremy Griffith

  Hypocrisy, Humans

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• Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

  Christopher Morley

  Truth, Prejudice, Facts

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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• Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

  John Eldredge

  Adventure, Winning, Battle

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.

  Katie Davis

  Christian, Children, Numbers

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• The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

  David Axelrod

  Moving, Cutting, Progress

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 14, 2010.

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• Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

  Lord Byron

  Depth, World, Found

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• No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due acknowledgment of the governing providence of a Supreme Being and the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher of hearts and righteous distributor of rewards and punishments are conducive equally to the happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the well being of communities.

  John Adams

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Voltaire

  Truth, Fruit, Should

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• Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Truth, Eye

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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• To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Receipts, Persecuted

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