“Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.”
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“To tell the truth is revolutionary.”
“No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
“Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.”
“I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.”
“Truth cannot be defeated.”
“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.”
“Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.”
“I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.”
“The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.”
“Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.”
“Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.”
“The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.”
“I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.”
“Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.”
“When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.”
“Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!”
“I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
“Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.”
“Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!”
“Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.”
“In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.”
“Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.”