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3 December 2020 Umberto Eco

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

3 December 2020 Joseph Joubert

Justice is the truth in action.

3 December 2020 Vincent D'Onofrio

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

3 December 2020 Lord Byron

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

3 December 2020 Buddha

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth not going all the way, and not starting.

3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

3 December 2020 Regis Philbin

I’ve worked for 55 years. I’m going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It’s just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. ‘Farewell to Regis!’ It’s getting embarrassing.

3 December 2020 Michael Kinsley

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

3 December 2020 Sara Teasdale

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.

3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats

I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

3 December 2020 Hu Shih

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

3 December 2020 Neal Boortz

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can’t deal with life, or the truth.

3 December 2020 Aesop

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

3 December 2020 Swami Sivananda

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

3 December 2020 Aesop

Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

3 December 2020 Stella Adler

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

3 December 2020 David Icke

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

3 December 2020 John Bradshaw

It’s essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life’s pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

3 December 2020 William Blake

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

3 December 2020 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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