"Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it."
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"Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it"
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"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor."
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"Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes."
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"The gift of truth excels all other gifts."
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"No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth."
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"A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue."
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"And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage... Second, were we truly men of judgment... Third, were we truly men of integrity... Finally, were we truly men of dedication?-"
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"Truth uttered before its time is dangerous."
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"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."
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"The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth."
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"Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments."
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"Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen."
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"The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist."
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"The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires."
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"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."
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"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."
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"Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth."
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"To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment."
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"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it."
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