“Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.”
— Michael Sheen
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of
“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
— Carl Jung
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If you look for truth, you may
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
— C. S. Lewis
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The great advantage about telling the truth
“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.”
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Buonaparte has often made his boast that
“Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.”
— Horatio Nelson
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It is proof of a base and
“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
— Giordano Bruno
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth,
“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”
— Edward de Bono
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To be outspoken is easy when you
“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
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A lie which is half a truth
“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Truth is always served by great minds,
“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.”
— Jean Rostand
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The truth has never been of any
“The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”
— Graham Greene
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