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"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
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"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: truth
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: anger, freedom, truth
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"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

tags: truth
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: laughter, truth
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"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: perspective, truth
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
— André Gide

tags: truth
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"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
— William Blake

tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
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"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."
— Albert Camus

tags: philosophy, truth
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"Truth is one, paths are many."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.
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— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)

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"Everyone holds a piece of the truth."
— Gandhi

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"But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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"There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
— Indira Gandhi

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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: agree
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"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein

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"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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"You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
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"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth."
— Maya Angelou

tags: truth
159 people liked it

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
— Niels Bohr

tags: science, truth
132 people liked it

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