Mark Twain Quotes, Truth Quotes, Fiction Quotes

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Truth Quotes , Political Quotes

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

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

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When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Truth Quotes , Honesty Quotes

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

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But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.

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It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Truth Quotes , Men Quotes

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Truth Quotes , Lying Quotes

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

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In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

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You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Truth Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

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The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Truth Quotes , And Love Quotes

The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.

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Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

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