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I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

— Lynne Cheney

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

— Blaise Pascal

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

— Sun Ra

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

— Isaac Newton

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

— Susan Sontag

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

— Jacques Lacan

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

— Henry Mayhew

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

— Lawrence Durrell

There's no truth anymore.

— Johnny Depp

✗Opposing Perspectives

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

— Georges Braque