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  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Science, Conceited

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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• I am entering into the truth, into nature.

  Paul Gauguin

  Entering

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -
  "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Loyalty, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.416

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• Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fiction, Suits, Stranger

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

  David Mamet

  Fortune Cookie, Remember, Telling The Truth

  David Mamet (2016). “Mamet Plays: 3: Glengarry Glen Ross; Prairie du Chien; The Shawl; Speed-the-Plow”, p.36, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Discovery, Pleasure

  "Anna Karenina".

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• I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

  Peter Medawar

  Giving, Advice, Age

  Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

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• What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

  Boris Pasternak

  Inspirational, Life, Cups

  "Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics". Book by Michael Guillen, 1983.

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• As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

  Richard Whately

  Believe, Differences, Inquiry

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• There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Sculpture, Painting, Creation

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• An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

  Karl Kraus

  Half, Aphorism, Half Truth

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• For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Men, Kwanzaa

  1972 On Africa. In the New York Times,16 Apr.

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• In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Joy, Perception, Youth

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Lying, Philosophy, Liars

  "Donald Rumsfeld Hasn't Learned a Damn Thing" by James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang, www.politico.com. April 04, 2014.

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• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  Quentin Crisp

  Communication, Diplomatic Relations, Language

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  I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Propaganda, Dangerous, Truth Is

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.

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• Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Outcomes, Matter, Opinion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.127, Penguin Books India

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  Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Family Practice" by Leigh Roche, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

  John Updike

  Men, Literature, Privacy

  "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

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• Truth burns up error.

  Sojourner Truth

  Life, Errors

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.23, Penguin

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  A promise made is a debt unpaid.

  Robert W. Service

  Trust, Honesty, Betrayal

  Songs of a Sourdough (1907) "Cremation of Sam McGee"

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• Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Respect, Opportunity

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Fire, Sparks, Return

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• You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Funny, Humorous, Odd

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