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We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth… For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don’t believe it because it’s not the truth they want to hear.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

By doubting we all come at truth.

When people who are honestly mistaken learn the truth, they will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest!

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.