#truths

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest. ↗

— Javan

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If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. ↗

— Dean Kamen

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In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld. ↗

— Charles Keating

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

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When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry. ↗

— Darrin Grimwood

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