#truth

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

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Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny. ↗

— Stephen Root

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ↗

— Jane Austen

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I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

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How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? ↗

— Curt Weldon

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These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗

— William John Wills

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