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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.
David Petraeus on truth

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor Stravinsky on truth

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Daniel Webster on truth

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.
Nate Silver on truth

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
Daniel Craig on truth

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.
Luke Scott on truth

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
Alan Cohen on truth

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
Shirley MacLaine on truth

My longing for truth was a single prayer.
Edith Stein on truth

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
Bayard Rustin on truth

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin on truth

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey on truth

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Joseph Conrad on truth

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Joseph Conrad on truth

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush on truth

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck on truth

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
Michael Kinsley on truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes on truth

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.
Chris Christie on truth

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus on truth