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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.


Alfred Russel Wallace

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R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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F. H. BRADLEY The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
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TAMSIN EGERTON The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Truth is the best defense.
WARD CHURCHILL A gift of truth is the gift of love.
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FRANZ LISZT The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted.
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FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
BUDDHA Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
EMILY DICKINSON When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
VACLAV HAVEL Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
VERNON HOWARD A lot of truth is said in jest.
EMINEM Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
MAHATMA GANDHI The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
ROBERT CAPA All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
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HERMANN HESSE To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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AVI The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
ABU BAKR Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
MAHATMA GANDHI The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
OSCAR WILDE The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
PETER USTINOV The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
JAMES MADISON The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.
FRANK ABAGNALE The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
HENRY ROLLINS The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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BERNARD WILLIAMS Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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PETER USTINOV Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
JESSICA LYNCH A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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CLAIRE MESSUD Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
MARY ASTELL I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
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IRVING WALLACE If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to...
LEW WALLACE Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS