Finding Out The Truth Quotes

• One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

  Carl Sagan

  Taken, Science, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.314, Ballantine Books

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• Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life. It was not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but something that we have to imbibe in our life and live it all the time so that we can improve and become better human beings.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Truth, Philosophy, Grandfather

  "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

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• Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

  Thucydides

  People, Stories, Firsts

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  Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

  Elvis Presley

  Positive, Trust, Wisdom

  Elvis Presley (2007). “Elvis: Inspirations”, p.16, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

  Adyashanti

  Looks, May, Easy

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• There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Fear, Refusal, Persistent

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Truth, Inspiration

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

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• Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

  Billie Jean King

  Badass, Women, Boxing

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters.

  Tristan Wilds

  Truth, Reality, Half

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• I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Believe, Views

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• Love is nothing other than finding the truth.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Findings

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• The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Ends, Findings

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• Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

  George Soros

  Political, Debate, Findings

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• I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

  David Remnick

  Fun, Light, Numbers

  "Media People: The New Yorker’s David Remnick". Interview with Alexandra Steigrad, wwd.com. October 10, 2014.

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• Finding out the truth doesn't always work out for the best!

  Axel

  Work Out, Findings

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• Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Truth, Racism, People

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

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• Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.

  A.S. King

  Caring, Thinking, What Matters

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• Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

  Karen Gillan

  Acting, World, Findings

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