#truth

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. ↗

— Richard Rorty

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To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction. ↗

— Charles Taze Russell

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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. ↗

— Bayard Rustin

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Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up. ↗

— Michael Schenker

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For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. ↗

— Shakira

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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. ↗

— Hu Shih

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

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See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. ↗

— John Sladek

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