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- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
- Erich Gutkind
- We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
- Swami Brahnmananda
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
- Johnson
- The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
- James Goldsmith
- The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
- Christopher Dawson
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