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- Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.
- Ann Richards
- I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
- Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
- Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
- David Shore, House M.D., Occam's Razor, 2004
- It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.
- David Shore, House M.D., Three Stories, 2004
- The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same.
- Brian Buckner, True Blood, Bad Blood, 2010
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