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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
Frances Wright on truth

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
David Mamet on truth

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov on truth

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov on truth

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Madeleine L'Engle on truth

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
King Hussein I on truth

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
Jean Claude Van Damme on truth

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
A. N. Wilson on truth

The truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann Hesse on truth

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.
Brad Pitt on truth

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Novalis on truth

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar on truth

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
John Dryden on truth

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
David Hume on truth

To tell the truth is revolutionary.
Antonio Gramsci on truth

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Martha Beck on truth

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.
Roger Bacon on truth

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.
Donald Cargill on truth

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield on truth

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
Jawaharlal Nehru on truth