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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.

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

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

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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

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

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.

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

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

All truth is very ordinary.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

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.

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

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

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

As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.

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

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.

But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.