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Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

— John Updike

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

— Henry David Thoreau

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

— Richard Rorty

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

— Sojourner Truth

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

— Ice Cube

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

— Ted Koppel

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

— Khalil Gibran

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

— Mary Astell

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

— Corey Hart

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

— Giacomo Casanova

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