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• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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• The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

  Frederick The Great

  Sad, Diversity, Prussia

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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• I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

  Voltaire

  Affection, Martyrdom

  Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert, February 08, 1776.

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• There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

  Voltaire

  Men, All Time, Cycles

  Letter to François-Joachim de Pierre, cardinal de Bernis, April 23, 1764.

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• Love truth, but pardon error.

  Voltaire

  Love, Life, Dream

  "Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme". Book by Voltaire, 1738.

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• Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

  Maimonides

  Wisdom, Doe, World

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• Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

  Tennessee Williams

  Opposites, Giving, Pockets

  Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, Acceptance, Mind

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

  Vincent de Paul

  Lying, Humility, Pride

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• Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Lying, Men

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5225, Delphi Classics

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• One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

  Coventry Patmore

  Wise, Men, Years

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.19, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Philosophy, War

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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• Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Time, Lag, Arms

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Justice, Retreat, Harsh

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  World, This World

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• Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Learning, Safe, Accepting Reality

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.18, tredition

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• When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soldier, Knows

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• I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

  Tom Cruise

  Care, Nasty, Fine

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• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

  Matthew Arnold

  Death, Men, Dying

  'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853) l. 656

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• Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

  Robert Browning

  Glasses, Done, Dinner

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.160, Pearson Education

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• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

  Samuel Butler

  Errors, Source, Pursuit

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.374, The Floating Press

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• A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Education, Honesty

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

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• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

  Malcolm X

  Justice, Humanity, Benefits

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.421, Ballantine Books

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• Opinion is a flitting thing
  But Truth outlasts the Sun.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sun, Opinion

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.56, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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