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Truth

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. – Stella Adler

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. – Thomas Mann

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. – Ludwig Borne

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. – Graham Greene

Tell the truth and shame the devil. – Francois Rabelais

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. – Xenophanes

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. – Louis Aragon

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors. – Kinky Friedman

One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal. – V. S. Naipaul

Truth comes to us mediated by human love. – A. N. Wilson

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. – Horatio Nelson

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. – Patrick Kavanagh

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life. – Joyce Meyer

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. – George McGovern

I make one pledge above all others – to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command. – George McGovern

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself. – David Sedaris

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may. – Jack Kemp

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it. – Pearl S. Buck

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real. – Muhammad Iqbal

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. – Dorothy L. Sayers