Quotes with truth

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  • Tim O'Brien If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 66
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Will Rogers If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bob Kane If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • C. S. Lewis If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • St. John of the Cross If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Emile Zola If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
    Emile Zola
    French writer (1840 - 1902)
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  • Mark Twain If you tell the truth, you have to remember anything.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Pietro Aretino If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
    Pietro Aretino
    Italian writer (1492 - 1556)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • René Descartes If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Billy Wilder If you're going to tell people the truth, make them laugh, or they'll kill you.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Biz Stone If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.'
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
    The Poisonwood Bible
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • David Mitchell Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction.
    Wolkenatlas (2008) 53
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • David Leavitt In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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