“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
— Katherine Mansfield
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“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.”
— Lao Tzu
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“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
— Albert Pike
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“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”
— Marcel Proust
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“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
— Thomas Huxley
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“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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“If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.”
— Frances Wright
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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
— John Ruskin
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“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
— Vladimir Lenin
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“Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.”
— Horace Mann
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