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Quotations by Subject: Truth
(Related Subjects: Lies, Honesty)
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.
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Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
Love truth, and pardon error.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act III, sc. 2
But 'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 3
But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, sc. 1
They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard II, Act II, sc. 1
Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act V, sc. 5
Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 2
While you live tell truth and shame the devil.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part I, Act III, 1
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