"Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."
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"What is not in nature can never be true."
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"A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth."
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe."
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"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
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"The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction."
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"Truth provokes those whom it does not convert."
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"You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in."
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"The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."
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"Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak."
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"A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it."
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"A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true."
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"The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable."
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"Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth."
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"The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult."
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"Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all."
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"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope."
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"The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent."
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"Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical."
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"I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself."
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