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- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Truth is the mother of hatred.
- Ausonius
- An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
- Madam Guizot
- We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- US Declaration of Independence
- In war, truth is the first casualty.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
- Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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