“Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.”
— J. Edgar Hoover
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“Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.”
— Samuel Goldwyn
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“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
— Harry S. Truman
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“Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful.”
— Charles Bradlaugh
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
— Winston Churchill
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“Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.”
— Joan of Arc
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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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