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Truth Quotes by William Faulkner
- Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white…
- Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
- I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone…
- So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you,…
- The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts:…
- The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.
- ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
- Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would…
- We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
- A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
- And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
More Truth Quotes
- 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