“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Believe those who are seeking the truth.
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
— Andre Gide
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Truth has no special time of its
“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.”
— Albert Schweitzer
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Representation of the world, like the world
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
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The first step toward finding God, Who
“The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.”
— Thomas Merton
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but
“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The greatest homage we can pay to
“The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.”
— James Russell Lowell
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All truth is simple… is that not
“All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Time discovers truth.
“Time discovers truth.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The American fascists are most easily recognized
“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.”
— Henry A. Wallace
Author: Henry A. Wallace
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he
“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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