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    The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

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    The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

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    The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

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    The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

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    The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).

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    The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

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    The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

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    The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

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    The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

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    The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love.

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    The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

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    There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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    The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

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    There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

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    There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult.

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    The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

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    There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

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    There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

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    There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

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    There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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    There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.

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    There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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    There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

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    There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

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    There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

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    There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

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    There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

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    There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

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    There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

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    There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition. These definitions rest upon simple, but abstract, suppositions, and all truths in this category are only constructed, but abstract, consequences of these definitions ... Physical truths, to the contrary, are in no way arbitrary, and do not depend on us.

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    There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

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    There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

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    There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

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    There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

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    There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

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    The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

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    The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

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    There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

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    The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

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    There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

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    Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that the truth may be painful, may be distressing, may be destructive of happiness or makes it impossible. Religion, unlike philosophy, is under the category of the useful one. It promises happiness and says what it is necessary to do and what it is necessary to be to deserve or to obtain it. Consequently, illusion is more important than truth if it gets happiness.

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    There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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    There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

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    There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

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    There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

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    There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

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    There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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    There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

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    There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

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    There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. This cliché is true only in a crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write-words.