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• Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

  Confucius

  Knowledge, Confucianism, Equal

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Business, Common, Finance

  Lacon: or many things in a few words (p. 189)

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• For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

  Thomas Jefferson

  May, Not Afraid

  Letter to William Roscoe, 27 Dec. 1820

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• At times truth may not seem probable.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Trust, May, Seems

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto III)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

  Will Durant

  Broken Heart, Minorities, Precedent

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• Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Heart, Views

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Knows

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.

  Georges Braque

  Common

  Cahiers d'art (edited by Christian Zervos), No. 10 (p. 96), 1935.

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• A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Integrity, Lying, Lies In Love

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

  Bernard Baruch

  Change, Reality, Views

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• Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

  Walter Martin

  Sake, Sin, Divine

  Walter Martin, Jill Martin Rische, Van Gorden Kurt (2008). “The Kingdom of the Occult”, p.677, Harper Collins

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• Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

  Joan of Arc

  Children, People, Sometimes

  "World Famous Women: Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time" by Frank Boott Goodrich, (p. 126), 1881.

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• What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

  Roland Barthes

  Sarcastic, Time, Sarcasm

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Mouths, Way

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 12, l. 838

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• The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

  Albert Camus

  Essentials, Firsts, Absurd

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Lying

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Peace, War

  Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference November 30, 1943; in Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.

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• Honesty is the best policy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Honesty

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.209, Regnery Publishing

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• Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

  Ed Sabol

  Believe, Learning, Heart

  "Remembering NFL Films' Founder Ed Sabol". "60 Minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. February 11, 2015.

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• Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Health, Independence, Conformity

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Inspirational, God

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Liberty, Honest

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  Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Honesty, Punishment, World

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part VI, Chapter 4, p. 471), 1866.

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• 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

  Change, Freedom, Integrity

  "Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600". Book by Coulson Turnbull, 1913.

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• Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Materialism, Vulgar

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