#truth

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth. ↗

— Wally Lamb

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We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed. ↗

— James Newman

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I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ↗

— Isaac Newton

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So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades. ↗

— John Olver

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I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie. ↗

— Jean Rouch

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Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy. ↗

— Roy Orbison

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In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results. ↗

— Sean Parker

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But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. ↗

— Albert Pike

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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