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  • "When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
    By: William Blake
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  • "Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
    By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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  • "But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out."
    By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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  • "Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails."
    By: Clarence Darrow
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  • "It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth."
    By: Oscar Wilde
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  • "Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."
    By: Alfred Bernhard Nobel
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  • "Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naïvety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man-the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
    By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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  • "In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence… and loathing seizes him."
    By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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  • "All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
    By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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  • "I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me."
    By: Sir Isaac Newton
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  • "Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great."
    By: John L. Motley
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  • "You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."
    By: Joe Moore
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  • "Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."
    By: Alfred A. Montapert
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  • "We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it."
    By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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  • "It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office."
    By: Henry Louis Mencken
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  • "There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison."
    By: André Maurois
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