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“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.”
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Truth is treasonous in an empire of lies."
— Ron Paul
"When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought."
— Anthony Kiedis
"If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?"
— Gene Wilder
"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
— Isaac Newton
"Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation."
— William James
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
— William Blake
"Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction."
— Warren Buffett
"The real war will never get in the books."
— Walt Whitman
"What's fair ain't necessarily right."
— Toni Morrison
"If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
"In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it."
— Terry Goodkind
"Greater things are believed of those who are absent."
— Tacitus
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
"Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish."
— T. S. Eliot
"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."
— Susan B. Anthony
"There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth."
"Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?"
— Socrates
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
— Robert M. Pirsig
"I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism."
— Richard Dawkins