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• Truth exists; only lies are invented.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Lying, Dishonesty

  Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 (Day and Night, Notebooks, 1952) p. 20

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• For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

  Doug Dawson

  Strong, Creativity, Color

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• It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

  Alan Cohen

  Pain, Entrepreneur, Insulting

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• You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

  Barack Obama

  African American, President, Want

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Inspirational, Beauty, Honor

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.121, A&C Black

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• It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Wisdom, Inspiration

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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• May I always hear that you are following the guidance of that blessed Spirit that will lead you into all truth, leaning on that Almighty arm that has been extended to deliver you, trusting only in the only Savior, and going on in your way to Him rejoicing.

  Francis Scott Key

  God, Blessed, May

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• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Ignorance, Acceptance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

  Hugh Walpole

  Lying, Failure, Errors

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• We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Hurt, Pain

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• For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Health, Years

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• The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Isolation, Capacity

  Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (2017). “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing”, p.220, Hachette UK

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  I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Yourself

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• The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Love, Relationship, Way

  Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare”, p.46, B&H Publishing Group

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• Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;
  When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:–
  And the man who dares to tell the truth,
  Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

  George Francis Train

  Peace, Fear, School

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• We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Voting

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Loving Someone, Novelists

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heartbreak, Lying, Silence

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

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• The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Honesty, Lying, Simple

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Honesty, Men

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Honesty, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Differences, Marketing, Use

  Discovery (published 1964).

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• We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Facts, Dissonance, Anxious

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• Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

  Agatha Christie

  Design, Woven, Bitter

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• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Witty, Military

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