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Truth Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in…
- If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you…
- The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
- Capital T-truth is about life before death.
- The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to…
- The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with…
- ...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
- Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have…
- We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody…
- The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the…
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- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov