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Truth

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. – Natalie Goldberg

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. – Alain Badiou

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. – Bodhidharma

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. – Audre Lorde

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! – Swami Sivananda

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Stevenson

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. – James Broughton

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. – Tertullian

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way. – June Jordan

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. – Mike Krzyzewski

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm. – Louis Farrakhan

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. – Harold Evans

OK, so truth hurts – but what else does truth do? – Teena Marie

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. – Walter Martin

Truth is exact correspondence with reality. – Paramahansa Yogananda

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. – Josefina Vazquez Mota

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. – Pindar

The truth is that men are tired of liberty. – Benito Mussolini

There is no original truth, only original error. – Gaston Bachelard