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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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  • #4
    George Carlin
    “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
    ― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
    tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women
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  • #5
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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  • #7
    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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  • #8
    Stephanie Klein
    “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
    ― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
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  • #9
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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  • #10
    Jim Morrison
    “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
    ― Jim MORRISON
    tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth
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  • #11
    Steve Maraboli
    “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: forgiveness, inspirational, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-forward, truth
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  • #12
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: hurt, lewis, misery, sad, truth
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    Hayley Williams
    “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
    ― Hayley Williams
    tags: falling, knowing, lesson-on-living, life, paramore, singer, stand, success, truth, understanding
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  • #16
    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: freedom, truth
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  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: denial, honesty, truth
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    Ayn Rand
    “People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: lying, rearden, slave, truth, victim
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    Lao Tzu
    “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: apothegm, beauty, truth
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    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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  • #21
    Voltaire
    “Love truth, but pardon error.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: truth
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  • #22
    Terry Goodkind
    “If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
    tags: adversity, sword, truth
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  • #23
    Jodi Picoult
    “The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
    tags: truth
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    Ally Carter
    “It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
    ― Ally Carter, Heist Society
    tags: lies, truth
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  • #25
    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: belief, life-and-death, truth
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  • #27
    Melina Marchetta
    “I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.”
    ― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
    tags: truth
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  • #28
    Kami Garcia
    “We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”
    ― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness
    tags: choices, truth
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  • #29
    Elvis Presley
    “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.”
    ― Elvis Presley
    tags: sun, truth
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  • #30
    Malcolm X
    “Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: truth
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