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- The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895
- When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
- Dick Clark
- The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
- Herbert Agar
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Man of La Mancha
- The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), 1903
- The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
- Shana Alexander
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