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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
4.9 · 44 votes · 59 reads
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Truth is the daughter of time.
Proverb
Anonymous
3.5 · 51 votes · 47 reads
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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.
Anonymous
4.8 · 46 votes · 77 reads
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.3 · 19 votes · 185 reads
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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.0 · 27 votes · 122 reads
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.2 · 38 votes · 115 reads
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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape tha
Robert Bresson
Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century
3.6 · 24 votes · 73 reads
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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
Friedrich Schiller
PoetGerman1759 · 18th century
4.5 · 12 votes · 182 reads
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Jules Renard
WriterFrench1864 · 19th century
4.8 · 59 votes · 83 reads
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century
5.0 · 10 votes · 106 reads
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
PoetBritish1874 · 19th century
4.4 · 26 votes · 58 reads
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Truth never hurts the teller.
Robert Bresson
Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century
3.8 · 43 votes · 123 reads
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
William James
PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century
4.9 · 14 votes · 118 reads
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century
3.5 · 11 votes · 137 reads
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell
PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century
4.7 · 34 votes · 146 reads
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.7 · 43 votes · 22 reads
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Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
Ambrose Bierce
WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century
3.2 · 51 votes · 175 reads
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus
NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century
3.0 · 47 votes · 42 reads
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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
Harry S. Truman
PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century
3.2 · 19 votes · 122 reads
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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 Hazlitt
EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century
4.0 · 30 votes · 167 reads
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot
PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century
3.3 · 5 votes · 0 reads
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
James Baldwin
WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century
4.2 · 20 votes · 168 reads
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What I tell you three times is true.
Lewis Carroll
NovelistEnglish1832 · 19th century
5.0 · 38 votes · 146 reads
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead
MathematicianEnglish1861 · 19th century
4.0 · 52 votes · 46 reads
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What is true belongs to me!
Seneca
PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC
4.7 · 24 votes · 125 reads
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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Joseph Joubert
French1754 · 18th century
4.8 · 58 votes · 168 reads
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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
PoetBritish1795 · 18th century
3.4 · 37 votes · 171 reads
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Disney
CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century
4.9 · 16 votes · 68 reads
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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
Will Rogers
ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century
3.1 · 59 votes · 84 reads
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
Anonymous
3.5 · 17 votes · 192 reads
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century
4.8 · 55 votes · 183 reads
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
PoliticianGerman1815 · 19th century
3.9 · 51 votes · 168 reads
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
Mahatma Gandhi
LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century
4.4 · 18 votes · 1 reads
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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.0 · 61 votes · 39 reads
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein
PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century
4.9 · 15 votes · 89 reads
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Burton
EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century
5.0 · 49 votes · 3 reads
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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.
Jean Baudrillard
PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century
3.4 · 5 votes · 138 reads
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century
5.0 · 29 votes · 122 reads
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
PoetBritish1874 · 19th century
4.8 · 8 votes · 30 reads
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Raymond Chandler
WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century
4.2 · 18 votes · 7 reads
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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
Napoleon Hill
WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century
4.5 · 60 votes · 61 reads
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