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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

You cannot make a demand on your life that exceeds your belief about it. Your belief is creating a personal law. It's not the truth, but a lie believed will act like a law until it's neutralized.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

People think I'm into positive thinking. I'm not a positive thinking guy. I'm into the truth. I'm a hunter of human excellence.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.