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Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

You can love many people. But the truth is you can only be IN LOVE with just ONE.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.

Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.

You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.

Truth is unoriginal.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

All truth is very ordinary.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

All truth is profound.

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.