"Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it."
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"What I tell you three times is true."
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"Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!"
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"No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies."
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"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."
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"The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries."
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"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."
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"I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten."
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"The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point."
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"Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it."
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"Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance."
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"People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted."
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"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
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"Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them."
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"You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?"
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"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
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"Experience alone can decide on truth."
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"... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled."
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"I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face."
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"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first."
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