"My commitment is to truth not consistency."
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"Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height."
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"To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect."
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"Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any."
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"The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite."
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"A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust."
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"Truth sounds paradoxical!"
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"Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness."
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"All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths."
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"We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose."
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"Every thing to be true must become a religion."
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"Truth is independent of facts always."
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"Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying."
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"The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world."
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"There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer."
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"We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever."
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"my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true."
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"Truth is but approved facts."
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"the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears."
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"There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried."
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