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• Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Respect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

  Georges Braque

  Life, Reality, Falsehood

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• Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

  Stephen King

  Life, Beautiful, Lying

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Individuality, Treasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2614, Delphi Classics

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• When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

  Thomas Sowell

  Lying, Helping Others, People

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.398, Basic Books

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• People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

  Robert Ringer

  Spiritual, Believe, Reality

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• Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Integrity, War

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.557, Best Books on

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• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Intelligent, Greatness, Perspective

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• There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

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• Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Honesty

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Liars, Lying

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.220, Bantam

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• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, World, Rise Above

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• You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Believe, Life And Death

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

  George Washington

  Pain, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  "The Real George Washington".

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• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Speak Your Mind, Minorities, Transcendentalism

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• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90

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• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Religion, Facts

  Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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• The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

  Aristotle

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• The highest truth cannot be put into words.

  Laozi

  Highest

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Madame de Stael

  Peace, War, Men

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• The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Success, Liars, Lying

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Errors, Intellectual

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Perseverance, Climbing

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