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We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.

The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.

Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

The truth is not so good a story.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.

Truth is beauty

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

Truth is never far behind.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.

When we found out Blackburn's owners wanted us to do a chicken advert for Venky's, we didn't really know what to think. I had to pretend to love it, but the truth is, one bite and my stomach was in knots.

'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.

Many a truth is the result of an error.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

The innermost core is witnessing, awareness, watchfulness. You can call it anything, but it will be another meaning of witnessing. Truth is pure awareness.

The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.

Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Truth is pure awareness.

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.

Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.

Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

I think the truth is black-and-white .

The truth of truths is love.