"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
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"The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
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"Tell truth, and shame the devil."
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"Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man."
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"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
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"Liars when they speak the truth are not believed."
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"Truth is truth to the end of reckoning."
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"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?"
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"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah."
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"The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
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"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."
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"Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal."
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"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
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"All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out."
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
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"Truth is for the minority."
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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."
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"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
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"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."
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