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- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
- If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
- There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
- Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
- The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
- Dr. Smiley Blanton
- There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
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