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- Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.
- Linus Pauling (1901 - 1994), No More War!
- You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
- Jurgen Schrempp, Former CEO of DaimlerChrysler
- One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
- This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.
- Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
- Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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