“The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.”
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“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
“Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
“Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.”
“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.”
“I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.”
“I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.”
“Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.”
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”
“I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.”
“Humility is truth.”
“The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.”
“Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.”
“Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.”
“Justice is the truth in action.”
“Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.”
“It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.”
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.”
“I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.”
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
“I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.”