#truth is

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. ↗

— William Randolph

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. ↗

— Mary Astell

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The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this. ↗

— David Axelrod

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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A half-truth is usually less than half of that. ↗

— Bern Williams

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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ↗

— Josh Billings

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I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

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There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. ↗

— Allan Bloom

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