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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as."

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Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright
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"The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that."

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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth."

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Tracy Morgan Comedian, Actor
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"The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!"

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
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"In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth."

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