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My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

My way of joking is to tell the truth

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.

Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you... Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise ... and that exercise will make them habitual.

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

No one is entitled to the truth.

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.