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• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Comfort, Belief, Elegance

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Oil, Broken, Water

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• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

  Paul Valery

  Years, Long, Flesh

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• Tell truth, and shame the devil.

  Jonathan Swift

  Devil, Shame

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.642

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• A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Fear

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.57, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Children, Honesty

  "Gems of Thought" edited by Charles Northend, 1888.

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• In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

  Walter Cronkite

  Two Sides, Stories, Different Sides

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• I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.

  Charles Richet

  Leadership, Said

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• If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

  Emile Zola

  Shut Up, Grows, Ifs

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• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Intelligence

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• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Intelligent, Understanding

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Honesty, Twilight

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.120, Vintage

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• It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leadership, Lying, Responsibility

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.60, Pantheon

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• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Trust, Betrayal

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Science, Play

  Dialogues prologue (1954)

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• There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Honesty, Crazy

  "Donald Trump, a Populist for the Rich" by Jim Hightower, progressive.org. October 9, 2016.

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• We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Lying, Believe

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• 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Pride, Years

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• There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Strong, Simple

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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• Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Appearance, Compounds

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.825, Library of America

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  I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Lying, Heart

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817

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• There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

  Irving Berlin

  Funny, Ideas, Long

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• The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Curiosity, Precious Possessions, Statistics

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• Truth has not such an urgent air.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Air, Urgent

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

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