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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Tom Stoppard

British playwright (born 1937)

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration’s complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

Sidney Blumenthal

American political writer

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

Audre Lorde

American writer and feminist activist (1934-1992)

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.

Dick Thornburgh

American politician (1932-2020)

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

B. C. Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

Mary Whitehouse

British conservative activist (1910-2001)

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Aldous Huxley

English writer and philosopher (1894-1963)

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

Flannery O’Connor

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Charles Francis Richter

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