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• A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Funny, Tired, People

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• Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Hope, Jesus

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• Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

  Jerry Bridges

  Inspirational, Trust, Bible

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• The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

  Umar

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  God, Wisdom, Prayer

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• If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.

  Heinz Kohut

  Believe, Profound, Psychology

  Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cheating

  "Pitino Sorry for 'Indiscretion,' Gets to Keep His Job" by Mark Mooney, Michael James, abcnews.go.com. August 12, 2009.

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• As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Love, Success, Education

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  Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Memorable

  "Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them". Book by John Mason, August 1999.

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• It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Liars, Lying

  The Idler Feb. 1892, p. 118

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• I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beauty, Beautiful, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Discovery, Doors

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

  Richard Whately

  Taken, Should, Applause

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.87

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• Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Past, Trying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3526, Delphi Classics

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• Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

  George Eliot

  Flavour, Rough, Bites

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3961, Delphi Classics

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• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspiration, Independent, Humble

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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• I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

  Ken Kesey

  Lady Macbeth, Sometimes, Fit

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.247, Penguin

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• Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

  Daniel Webster

  Lying, Liars, 4th Of July

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.487

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• My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Uniforms, Convinced

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.35, A&C Black

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Lying, Creativity

  The Arts, May 1923

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• Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Science, Errors

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species'

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• Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Sorry, Knowing Who You Are, People

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• Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Angel, Men, Bread

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• In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Imitation, Copies

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