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We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Present
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Truth
Marcus T. Cicero

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Lies and Lying
Marcus T. Cicero

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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Humor
Dick Clark

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Lies and Lying
Jean Cocteau

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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Leonard Cohen

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Gossip
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
Truth
Charles Caleb Colton

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Truth
Confucius

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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Sincerity
Confucius

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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Humor
Joseph Conrad

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Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Writers and Writing
James J. Corbett

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Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
Habit
George Crabbe

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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
Genius
Edward Dahlberg

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.
Truth
Danish Proverb

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Truth
Clarence Darrow

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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Truth
Robertson Davies

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After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
Research
Helene Deutsch

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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
Diplomacy
Di Cavour

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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Greatness
Charles Dickens

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Truth
Charles Dickens

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Truth
Emily Dickinson

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Truth
Emily Dickinson

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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Maxim
Denis Diderot

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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
Justice
Denis Diderot

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun