"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are."
"We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life."
"The truth is, sometimes you have to get left before you can get right. Sometimes God will take you left on your journey to get you right, to do a work in you that will prepare you for what He has for you."
"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change."
"The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
"Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals."
"My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so."
"A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies."
"Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people."
"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day."
"I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough."
"A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible."
"You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right."
"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
"The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time."
"The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much."
"Sometimes the truth is stupid."
"Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise."
"The truth is that fear cannot coexist with love. Therefore, we must learn how to dissolve all boundaries with love by taking responsibility for our own energy. In doing so, we'll raise the energy around us."