“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.”
— Karl Von Clausewitz
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“To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.”
— Frank Herbert
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“A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.”
— Georges Bataille
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“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
— Anais Nin
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“I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.”
— Benjamin Carson
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“Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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“The law is agnostic about truth.”
— Alan Dershowitz
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“The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.”
— Abu Bakr
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“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.”
— Robert Menzies
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