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“And 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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“Half a truth is better than no politics.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.”
— Mason Cooley
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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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“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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“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.”
— Samuel Butler
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
— Buddha
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“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
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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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“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
— Blaise Pascal
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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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“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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“Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”
— Voltaire
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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.”
— Harry S. Truman
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“If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.”
— E. O. Wilson
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“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
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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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“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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“Silence is the mother of truth.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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