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"It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all."
"Truth is more than a dream and a song."
"Understanding is the key to true knowledge"
"If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts."
"We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?"
"Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick."
"Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time."
"Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club"
"Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use."
"Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it."
"I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage."
"Sacrifice life to truth."
"My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty."
"Abstract truth is the eye of reason."
"As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way."
"If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part."
"In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me."
"Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions."
"And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering."
"Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought."
