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• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Honesty, Integrity, People

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• Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

  Mencius

  Time, Honesty, Danger

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• Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Fog, Torches, Gleam

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• On cannot be precise, and still be true.

  Marc Chagall

  Being True, Stills, Precise

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• To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Errors, Path, Enough

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.119, Hackett Publishing

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• The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.

  Daniel Dennett

  Asking Questions, Goal, Culture

  "Postmodernism and Truth". Daniel Dennett's speech at the World Congress of Philosophy in Boston, ase.tufts.edu. August 13, 1998.

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• The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

  Arthur Koestler

  Ultimate, Falsehood, Truth Is

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• Whatever you say about something, it is not.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Whatever You Say

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• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.188, Princeton University Press

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• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

  Rene Descartes

  Life, Real, Philosophical

  "Principles of Philosophy". Book by Rene Descartes, 1644.

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• Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

  William Cowper

  Fighting, Shadow, Racist

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.65

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• Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Memorable, Ends

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.121

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• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

  Richard Bach

  Fake People, Integrity, Simple Life

  Richard Bach (2013). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.47, Random House

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• Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

  George Herbert

  Honesty, Lying, Two

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.98

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• There's no God higher than truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Higher, Truth Of God

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• There is no god higher than truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Religion, Atheism

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Believe

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

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Peace, Evil Love

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• Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Unconditional Love, Reality

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  People, Denial, Facts

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• Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Lying, Honor, Speak

  Nomination acceptance speech, Miami, 8 Aug. 1968, in New York Times 9 Aug. 1968, p. 20

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Science, Ideas, Doe

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• To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

  John Locke

  Honesty, Perfection, Political

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.3064, Delphi Classics

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• Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Infinity, Combination

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