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- We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
- Richard Whately
- The only atheism is the denial of truth.
- Arthur Lynch
- According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
- Charles Richter
- We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
- Jeremy Collier
- The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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