“Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.”
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“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.”
“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.”
“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”
“A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.”
“Exactitude is not truth.”
“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.”
“I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.”
“This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.”
“I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.”
“Language is the house of the truth of Being.”
“I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.”
“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”
“Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.”
“To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.”
“I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.”
“A gift of truth is the gift of love.”
“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”
“I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.”
“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.”
“A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.”
“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”
“No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.”
“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”