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- Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
- The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
- Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
- Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
- Moliere (1622 - 1673)
- Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)
- Truth is subject to too much analysis.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth! - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus Rex
- Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Creusa
- Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus (160 AD - 230 AD), Adversus Valentinianos
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