"When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier."
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"Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together"
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"Science is but an image of the truth."
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"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
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"The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction."
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"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."
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"Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind."
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"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."
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"The truth is never pretty."
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"There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth."
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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
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"The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth."
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"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow."
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"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values."
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"There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty."
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"Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures."
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"Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has."
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"Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best."
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"One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is."
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