"The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time."
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"A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it."
"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
"We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all."
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
"The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless."
"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
"There is no truth. There is only perception."
"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
"Truth is more in the process than in the result."
"The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts."
"Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it."
"Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"
"We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it."
"It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way."
"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."
"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."