Favorite Quotations
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Truth
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Truth is from before creation. (Mai ka po mai ka oiaio) ~ Hawaiian Proverb I don’t care if you print something nasty about me. If it’s true, fine. I don’t care. But just make sure it’s the truth.~ Tom Cruise Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.~ Joan of Arc We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.~ John F. Kennedy Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.~ Clarence Darrow, Graduates Are Special If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later to be found out. ~ Oscar Wilde Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it. ~ Emily Dickinson In seeking truth you have to get both sides of the story. ~ Walter Cronkite After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.~ Robert Lewis Stevenson Truth is steadfast. (O ka oiaio he onipaa noia) ~ Hawaiian Proverb I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it. ~ Denis Diderot Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~ Leo Tolstoy It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place. ~ H. L. Mencken
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ~ Arthur Conan Doyle