truth
n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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n. Well aged blasphemies.
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Cynical Quotations
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
— Clarence Darrow
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They shall not overcome. Whoever told them that the truth shall set them free was obviously and grossly unfamiliar with federal law.
— John Ashcroft
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Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. And most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
— Herbert Agar
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Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
— Philip Guedalla
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
— Thomas Sowell
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
— Mark Twain
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
— H.L. Mencken
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
— Unknown
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
— Edith Sitwell
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It is amazing the number of people who are pleased by the simple act of sincerely professing the truth. I mean, I would have thought there would have been at least one.
— John Alejandro King
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth – unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
— Ambrose Bierce
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If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
— Robert Heinlein
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
— Oscar Wilde
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A politician under oath is a bit like a tumor under chemotherapy.
— William Ferraiolo
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
— Andre Gide
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Be careful what lies you make up ... they might be true.
— Cheryl Mannix-Smith
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Truth is my only god, but what a reclusive god he is.
— Guy Smith
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