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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

- David Kay

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

- Marilyn Manson

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

- Edmond Rostand

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

- Barry White

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

- John F. Kennedy

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

- Lee Greenwood

Truth cannot be defeated.

- Edwin Louis Cole

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

- Malcolm X

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

- George Washington

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

- Aesop

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

- Howard Dean

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

- Madame de Stael

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

- John Locke

The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do.

- Hugh Grant

The color of truth is gray.

- Andre Gide

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

- George Oppen

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

- Justin Timberlake

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

- Mohandas Gandhi

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

- Adolf Hitler

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Emily Dickinson

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

- Elizabeth Bowen

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

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

- Will Rogers

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

- Albert Schweitzer

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

- Shunryu Suzuki

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

- James Allen