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3 December 2020 Jim Rohn

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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.

3 December 2020 Justin Timberlake

Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth.

3 December 2020 Brad Pitt

I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

3 December 2020 Martha Gellhorn

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

3 December 2020 William James

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

3 December 2020 James Broughton

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

3 December 2020 Vivien Leigh

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

3 December 2020 David Petraeus

People often ask, why aren’t you reading about what it is you’re working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

3 December 2020 Johann Arndt

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

3 December 2020 Joan of Arc

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

3 December 2020 William Blake

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

3 December 2020 J. Edgar Hoover

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.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

3 December 2020 Hans Eysenck

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

3 December 2020 James Madison

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

3 December 2020 W. Clement Stone

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

3 December 2020 Glenn Beck

You’ve got to demand the truth from yourself.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

3 December 2020 Quentin Tarantino

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

3 December 2020 Molly Ivins

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

3 December 2020 Daniel Craig

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That’s the best. It makes you say, ‘OK, I’ll go with you on this.’

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