"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."
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"Compliments win friends, honesty loses them."
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"We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity."
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"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
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"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."
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"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?"
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"Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)"
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore."
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"My actions are my only true belongings."
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"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."
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"Too much truth is uncouth."
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"When in doubt tell the truth."
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"For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word."
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"It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free."
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"Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life. It was not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but something that we have to imbibe in our life and live it all the time so that we can improve and become better human beings."
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"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth."
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"What people believe prevails over the truth."
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"The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon."
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"Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge."
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"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."
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