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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt on truth

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
Joe Biden on truth

Exactitude is not truth.
Henri Matisse on truth

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Barbara Kingsolver on truth

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.
Scott Ritter on truth

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.
Johann Arndt on truth

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Oliver North on truth

Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger on truth

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing on truth

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
Franz Marc on truth

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing on truth

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot on truth

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert on truth

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
David Duchovny on truth

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.
Regis Philbin on truth

A gift of truth is the gift of love.
David Icke on truth

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Edward de Bono on truth

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Giordano Bruno on truth

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre on truth

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.
Charlie Kaufman on truth