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“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
— Lewis Carroll
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“A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.”
— Baltasar Gracian
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“Truth is in things, and not in words.”
— Herman Melville
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“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.”
— Dave Barry
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“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'”
— Khalil Gibran
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“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
— Confucius
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“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”
— Khalil Gibran
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“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
— Max Planck
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“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.”
— Harry S. Truman
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“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
— Carl Jung
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“Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.”
— Francis Bacon
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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
— Ayn Rand
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“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”
— William Blake
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“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
— Mark Twain
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“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
— Thomas Paine
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“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Silence is the mother of truth.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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