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- Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Notes on Virginia
- When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
- Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
- Shunryu Suzuki
- Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
- Unknown
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