"To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it."
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"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily"
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"At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure."
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"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."
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"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy."
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"In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin."
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"The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect."
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"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined."
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"So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?"
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"Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it."
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"All generalizations are false, including this one."
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"Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion."
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"Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error."
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"Truth is child of Time."
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"There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather."
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"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."
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"Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time."
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"You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth."
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"Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty."
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"Truth is its own reward."
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