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#1

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#2

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#3

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#4

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, life, perception, truth

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#5

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: authors, good-books, truth, writers

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#6

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth

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#7

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: truth

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#8

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
― Jessamyn West

tags: books, on-fiction, reality, truth

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#9

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

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#10

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: apothegm, beauty, truth

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#11

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
― Malcolm X

tags: truth

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#12

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll

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#13

“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
― Albert Einstein

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#14

“In darkness God's truth shines most clear.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

tags: christianity, truth

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#15

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz

tags: democracy, dissent, heroes, honesty, integrity, truth, truth-telling, virtue

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#16

“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”
― Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed

tags: disagreement, inspirational, truth

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#17

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
― William Faulkner

tags: newspapers, truth

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#18

“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: honesty, silence, truth

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#19

“If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Complete Letters, 1868-1871

tags: christ, truth

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#20

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: art, awe, einstein, emotion, eyes, life, mysterious, reality, science, the-mysterious, truth, vision

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#22

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder

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#23

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

tags: stupid

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#24

“Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves. ”
― Barry Lopez, Crow and Weasel

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#25

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.”
― Basho

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