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- Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.
- George Lucas (1944 - ), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989
- I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
- Krishnamurti
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), from his report to the King of France on Animal Magnetism, 1784
- Justice is truth in action.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.
- Joseph Sobran
- Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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