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• If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

  Billy Wilder

  Funny, Inspiring, Sarcastic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth is always paradoxical.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth Is, Paradoxical

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.10, New York Review of Books

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• You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

  Carl Bernstein

  Honesty, Lines, Journalism

  "Watergate Journalist Says Media Losing Public’s Trust". www2.ljworld.com. April 16, 2005.

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• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Libel, Slander

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

  Saint Augustine

  Hippo

  Saint Augustine, F. J. Sheed (2007). “Confessions (Second Edition)”, p.81, Hackett Publishing

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• For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Naked, Waste

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.117

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

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Memories, Liars

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

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• The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

  DeVon Franklin

  God, Two, Preparation

  DeVon Franklin (2011). “Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Eye, Mind, Radiance

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• The object of the superior man is truth.

  Confucius

  Philosophical, Men, Superior Man

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

  William James

  Opposites, Would Be, Unfaithful

  William James (2007). “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2015

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• Live truth instead of professing it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Character, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1908). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Nature, Foundation, Sole

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.21

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• Truth is the glue that holds government together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Honesty, Patriotic, Government

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Believe, People, Faces

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• Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Funny, Add

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• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

  William James

  Life, Trust, Philosophical

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

  Marcel Proust

  Familiar, Truest

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

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• The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, World, Logic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Honesty, Contrary, Truth Is

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

  William Blake

  Belief, Understood

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

  Aristotle

  Honesty, Plato, Philosophical

  Greek original ascribed to Aristotle

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• Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Trust, Time, Truth Is

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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