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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. -- Thomas Mann
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader. -- A. E. van Vogt
Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after. -- Richard Flanagan
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Niels Bohr
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find. -- Bernadette Peters
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. -- John Malkovich
We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true. -- John Malkovich
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Niels Bohr
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Truth is a great flirt. -- Franz Liszt
The great seal of truth is simplicity. -- Herman Boerhaave
All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy. -- George Bernard Shaw
Hope is a great falsifier of truth. -- Baltasar Gracian
It's in great joy that we grasp truth. -- Mark Leyner
Half a truth is often a great lie. -- Benjamin Franklin
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth -- Dorothy Allison
I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth. -- George Michael
there are elements of truth in all great fiction -- Teresa Medeiros
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -- Isaac Newton
There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. -- Jeff Feuerzeig
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have a great life, to tell you the truth. -- Shirley MacLaine
It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry. -- Joan Bauer
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it. -- Alexandre Dumas
The great quest of life has always been to discover truth. -- Joyce Meyer
The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion. -- G. Campbell Morgan
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship. -- Bill Vaughan
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. -- R. D. Laing
Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life. -- Marty Rubin
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs. -- Blaise Pascal
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. -- Brendan Coyle
In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company. -- Austin Osman Spare
Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth. -- Oscar Wilde
The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement. -- John C. Maxwell
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. -- Jean Rostand
Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth. -- David Morrell
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty. -- Michael Parenti
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great. -- Confucius
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. -- Charles Dickens
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven. -- Richard P. Feynman
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. -- Jean-Luc Godard
For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories. -- Siri Hustvedt
It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them. -- Marilynne Robinson
Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth. -- Raymond Chandler
No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought. -- Stevie Wonder
Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth -- Doc Rivers
Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth. -- Joe Seneca
The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity. -- Steve Aylett
There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. -- Jean Renoir
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. -- Amy Poehler
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is the great truth we all know in our hearts and must eventually recognize. -- Laurence Overmire
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees. -- Demi Moore
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find. -- Mencius
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound! -- Kabir
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. -- Tom Bissell
I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth. -- Gabriel Byrne
The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it. -- Isabel Paterson
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless. -- Woodrow Wilson
Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better. -- Charles Krauthammer
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. -- Aldous Huxley
Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth! -- Sorin Cerin
What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world. -- Patrick Marber
The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us. -- Curtis Martin
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. -- J. K. Rowling
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. -- William Cowper
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. -- Criss Jami
With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides, He provides. -- Frank Buchman
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. -- James Madison
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion. -- Richard B. Garnett
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. -- John Ruskin
Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth. -- Charles Spurgeon
The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost. -- Paul Washer
As great as technology is, it still has it's limitations, because it's only a frame of the truth -- Adrian Grenier
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life. -- Anne Lamott
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing -- Susan Howatch
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable -- Rene Descartes
Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear. -- William Schutz
The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page. -- Jonathan Messinger
If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. -- Socrates
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. -- Paul Westerberg
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. -- Dan Simmons
The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. -- J. K. Rowling
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. -- William Hazlitt
Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril. -- David Sedaris
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. -- Philip James Bailey
God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings. -- Marianne Williamson
You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth. -- Michael Steinhardt
In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got. -- Bradley Denton
The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. -- Ernest Renan
Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality. -- Jewel
There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. -- George Augustus Henry Sala
We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept. -- James Cameron
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. -- Charles H. Townes
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth. -- Sun Ra
Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. -- Albert Camus
Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation. -- Mary Augusta Ward
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. -- Niels Bohr
The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations. -- Michael Bloomberg
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible. -- Joseph Addison
If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month. -- Alan Gorrie
The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed. -- Lord Acton
Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being. -- Brian Swimme
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. -- Samuel Johnson
This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another. -- James Vila Blake
The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other. -- Andre Dubus

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