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With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.
Thomas Jefferson
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As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
Henry David Thoreau
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Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truth. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies.
Thomas Jefferson
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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Method consists entirely in the order and disposition of the objects towards which our mental vision must be directed if we would find out any truth.
René Descartes
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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.
Cicero
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If I have sometimes disturbed the peace of our Academic meetings by somewhat too lively discussions, it is because I have passionately defended the truth.
Louis Pasteur
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He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.
Virginia Woolf
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What is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.
Oscar Wilde
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
G. K. Chesterton
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Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
Bertrand Russell
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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
George Bernard Shaw
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
Aldous Huxley
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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.
Stephen King
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The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
Plato
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Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.
Barack Obama
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The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The mathematician is perfect only in so far as he is a perfect being, in so far as he perceives the beauty of truth; only then will his work be thorough, transparent, comprehensive, pure, clear, attractive, and even elegant.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.
Albert Einstein
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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
Miguel de Cervantes
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No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
Aldous Huxley
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