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If I hear the Way of truth in the morning, I am content even to die in that evening.

Confucius

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Mark Twain

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A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

Saint Basil

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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

George Orwell

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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

Rumi

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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Orson Welles

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy

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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Maya Angelou

3

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is — it is her shadow.

Ambrose Bierce

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston Churchill

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It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".

Marcus Tullius Cicero

2

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

W. Clement Stone

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill

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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Publilius Syrus

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