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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.