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The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.
Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.