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There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. -- Lucian Freud
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. -- David Friedrich Strauss
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. -- Janet Frame
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. -- Terry Gross
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory." -- Terry Gross
I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter, there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor spiritual ghost. They are also made of matter, but totally different in size andlaws of physics which rule their life and the way they interact. -- Toba Beta
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. -- Edward Albee
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. -- William Allen White
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction. -- Remy de Gourmont
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. -- Maya Angelou
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. -- Werner Herzog
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. -- Luther Burbank
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. -- Paul Harding
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this. -- Wen Jiabao
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics. -- Iain McGilchrist
You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact. -- Andy Serkis
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. -- Charles Darwin
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact. -- Ernest Renan
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. -- Neil Gaiman
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. -- Henry Mayhew
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. -- Gottfried Leibniz
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind. -- Henry Mayhew
It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact. -- Toba Beta
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination. -- Werner Herzog
A fact may blossom into a truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A fact is not a truth until you love it. -- Shelby Foote
I know many versions of truth that explain one fact. -- Toba Beta
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. -- Edward Albee
Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact). -- R. Buckminster Fuller
In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact. -- Christopher Morley
There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie. -- Krisi Keley
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system -- William James
Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can. -- Barry Hughart
Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative. -- Criss Jami
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. -- Edward Abbey
Truth is something believed in heart.Fact is anything happened in realities. -- Toba Beta
Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. -- Robert Graves
Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact. -- Martyn
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction -- Remy de Gourmont
In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King. -- David Rasche
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. -- Gottfried Leibniz
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. -- Robert McKee
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. -- Henry A. Wallace
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. -- Brian Perkins
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact. -- G.K. Chesterton
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth. -- Richard Avedon
I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth -- Diane Sawyer
The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it's time. -- Snoop Dogg
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. -- Diane Setterfield
The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on. -- Gregory Maguire
The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth. -- Alan Ball
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. -- Seamus Heaney
The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth -- Clarence Darrow
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. -- Marcus Aurelius
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions. -- Hans Kung
In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. -- William James
The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact. -- Ala Bashir
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created. -- Jason Calacanis
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes. -- Simon Blackburn
A very single fact could emerge into many versions of truth,depends on the number of eyewitnesses and interpretations. -- Toba Beta
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions. -- George Iles
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. -- Oscar Wilde
A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon? -- Margaret Atwood
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. -- Eleanor Antin
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. -- Hosea Ballou
A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what. -- Cameron Jace
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth. -- Miguel de Unamuno
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity. -- HalldÃ³r Laxness
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth. -- Umberto Eco
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. -- H. L. Mencken
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. -- Bertrand Russell
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth. -- Alexander MacLaren
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. -- Shirley Hazzard
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable. -- Errol Morris
From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth. -- Geoffrey Hodson
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. -- Ayn Rand
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It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream. -- William Faulkner
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. -- Anne Rice
Freedom without limits is when you choose to be a Bondman for "JESUS".... Sounds funny but it is the fact as well as the Truth -- Thomas Sam
Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace. -- Randy Alcorn
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. -- Thucydides
India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. -- Edward Albee
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word. -- Eric Ludy
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The truth is that we all have what it takes to succeed and the fact is that not everyone will attain what they define success to be. -- Archibald Marwizi
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth -- Niels Bohr
That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth. -- Bill Hicks
Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever. -- Ed Sabol
Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix. -- Gail Collins
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. -- Maimonides
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices. -- Zygmunt Bauman
That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology. -- Hilda Phoebe Hudson
You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself. -- Adyashanti
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact. -- Conor Oberst
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. -- Daniel Kahneman
The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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