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• The truth is more important than the facts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Witty, Honesty

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier

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• There is no truth. There is only perception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Perspective, Perception, Favourite

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• Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Statistics, Being True

  "Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul". Book by Richard Bach, August 16, 2004.

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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Fiction, Sticks

  Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

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• For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Fiction, Literature

  Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93

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• Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tides, Swept Away, Endure

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Time, Integrity, Live In The Moment

  Zwischen Wasser und Urwald (On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, 1922) ch. 11

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• It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Pain, Ideas

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• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

  Anais Nin

  Reality, Political, Growth

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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

  Inspirational, Trust, Spiritual

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• When in doubt tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Honesty, Book

  Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• The truth is lived, not taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Literature, Taught, Truth Is

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• We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Integrity, Vision, Glances

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• Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Trust, Time, Lying

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.255, Cambridge University Press

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• The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

  J. K. Rowling

  Beautiful, Literature, Great Harry Potter

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• Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Cost, Ifs

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• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Money

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.125, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Trust, Cheating

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• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

  Francis Bacon

  Failure, Frustration, Errors

  Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.336

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• A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

  Thomas Mann

  Lying, Opposites, Truth Is

  "Essay on Freud". May 16, 1929.

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• The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Consistency, Literature

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Fiction, Wonder

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• Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Prevailing, Truth Will Prevail

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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