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Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
- Honor
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
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It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
- Secrets
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You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
- Experience
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On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity.
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I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.
- Displeasure
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I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
- Industry
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
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I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead.
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I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.
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