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Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.
Michael Moore on truth

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
George Herbert on truth

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David on truth

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham on truth

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
William Temple on truth

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
John Cleese on truth

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. Forbes on truth

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.
Richard Roeper on truth

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto Eco on truth

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran on truth

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.
Bryant H. McGill on truth

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
Bryant H. McGill on truth

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
Edmond de Goncourt on truth

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
Mary J. Blige on truth

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Robert M. Pirsig on truth

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
Jane Goodall on truth

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
Georges Bataille on truth

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Arthur Balfour on truth

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka on truth

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
Tom Hiddleston on truth