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A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.
Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.
Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.