| "I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth I wonder." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth." »Umberto Eco |
| "No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition." »Alan Marshall Beck |
| "Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big 'thing.' This is truth, to me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "truth is simple. It's just the truth. But think about when someone lies. Think about all the lies they need to tell in order to keep the original lie going. It's a tangled web, and it makes getting at the truth very difficult - which is exactly what the liar wants."" »John Rocco Savalli |
| "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." »Jesus |
| "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me." »Simone de Beauvoir |
| "Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists." »Calvin S. Hall |
| "He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers." »Charles Peguy |
| "The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth." »Alfred Adler |
| "truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul." »Pythagorus |
| "There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "The lawyer's truth is not truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks." »Real Live Preacher |
| "truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance." »W. Clement Stone |
| "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." »Bible |
| "But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see." »George Meredith |
| "In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral." »George Santayana |
| "Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar." »J. Edgar Hoover |
| "In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." »Charles A. Dana |
| "How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth" »Sophocles |
| "truth is truth To the end of reckoning." »William Shakespeare |
| "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." »Aldous Huxley |
| "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not." »John Keats |
| "The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." »Herbert Agar |
| "The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." »Jim |
| "A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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