The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
-Andre
Malraux
The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
-Richard
P. Feynman
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of
receiving it as guest.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The truth does not change based on our ability to stomach it.
-Flannery
O'Connor
The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe
prettier, neatley wrapped lies.
-Jodi Picoult
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with
mercy.
-Ken Kesey
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
-B.C. Forbes
The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you
cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
-Søren
Kierkegaard
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach
it, because there is always something more to say.
-Tom Stoppard
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
-Pearl
S. Buck
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe
to give it voice.
-Clarence Darrow
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known.
If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about
anything. There would only be what is.
-Susan Sontag
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
-Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may
deride it. But in the end, there it is.
-Winston Churchill
The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
-Pope
John Paul II
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and
departing all at the same time.
-David Bowie
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to
lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
-Alfred Adler
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
-Émile Zola
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
-James
Madison
The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own
happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who
demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be
fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for
the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that
life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.
-Joyce Carey
The truth is that male religious leaders have had- and still have- an
option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women.
They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.
Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for
much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the
world.
-Jimmy Carter
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific
genius that will do us in.
-Stephen Vizinczey
The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible,
whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making
individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people
ignoring their morality is horrifying.
-Joel Stein
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
-Jean-Luc
Godard
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put
off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner
or later all men will do and know all things.
-Jorge Luis Borges
The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated
route.
-George Sand
The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
-Lenny Bruce
The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don't you know
history?
-Joseph Heller
The truth is, there's no one I'd like to have dinner with.
-Woody
Allen
The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is
heartless.
-Woodrow Wilson
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great
ones as well as we can... To great evils we submit; we resent little
provocations.
-William Hazlitt
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
-Nadine
Gordimer
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
-Terry
Pratchett
The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world;
the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the
majority will desire the truth.
-Søren Kierkegaard
The truth never stands in the way of a good story.
-Jan Harold
Brunvand
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And
vice versa.
-Robert A. Heinlein
The truth of faith cannot be confirmed by latest physical or biological
or psychological discoveries- as it cannot be denied by them.
-Paul
Tillich
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
-H. Norman Schwartzkopf, Jr.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
-Leonardo
da Vinci
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men
prefer not to hear.
-Herbert Sebastian Agar
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is
that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because
smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion
to your fear of being hurt.
-Thomas Merton
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
-Jamie
Buckingham
The truth will set you free, but first, it will piss you off.
-Gloria
Steinem
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David
Foster Wallace
The truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to
liberation and dignity.
-Ricky Gervais
The truth-seeker in every field is held under suspicion by the great
majority of men.
-H.L. Mencken
The truth. They make it consist of nothing they cannot prove. The
greatest happiness they find in it is being able to put forth
incontestable assertions. This is what they like, and they consider it a
sign of prestige, a prerogative, a power, a dignity, etc., a liberation
from error.
-Joseph Joubert
The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some
gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion
which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.
-George
Gissing
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(February 21 is the birthday of Anais Nin, Barbara Jordan, Erma Bombeck, Sacha Guitry, and W.H. Auden.)
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