“What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?”
— Henry Miller
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Let a man get up and say,
“Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.”
— Virginia Woolf
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth
“Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.”
— Mel Brooks
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity
“The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.”
— Irving Langmuir
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If there is one eternal truth of
“If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.”
— John le Carre
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The thing about black history is that
“The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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I say that justice is truth in
“I say that justice is truth in action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
— Arthur Miller
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No human being is constituted to know
“No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.”
— William Osler
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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
— Martin Luther
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Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth
“Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.”
— Thomas Huxley
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