Quotes with truth

Quotes 261 till 280 of 1024.

  • George Orwell However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ronald Laing Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
    The politics of experience
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Dick Clark Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
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  • Victor Borge Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
    Victor Borge
    Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist (1909 - 2000)
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  • Anita Desai I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Christopher Hampton I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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  • Tony Montana I always tell the truth, even when I lie
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  • Burt Lancaster I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
    Burt Lancaster
    American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jean Cocteau I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • John Mason Brown I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • John Keats I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Igor Stravinsky I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Thomas Taylor I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.
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  • J. G. Ballard I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bill Hicks I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
    Filling Up the Hump
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Alija Izetbegovic I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
    Alija Izetbegovic
    Bosnian politician
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