“It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.”
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“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.”
“I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.”
“People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.”
“Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.”
“I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.”
“To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.”
“Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.”
“It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.”
“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”
“Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.”
“I always come from truth.”
“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”
“Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.”
“The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.”
“The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.”
“Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.”
“God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.”
“Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.”
“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”
“The truth is lived, not taught.”
“I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.”
“To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.”
“For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.”