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~ My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year. ~

Roberto Benigni

~ From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant. ~

Dalai Lama

~ A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. ~

Lao Tzu

~ Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal. ~

James Russell Lowell

~ Private and public life are subject to the same rules-- truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better then policy or tact or expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line. ~

Robert E. Lee

~ There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. ~

Charles Pierce

~ It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ~

Virginia Woolf

~ All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ~

William Mathews

~ Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ~

Denis Diderot

~ It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ~

Arthur Conan Doyle

~ A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ~

Isaac Asimov

~ From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. ~

Georg Brandes

~ To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. ~

Charles Darwin

~ Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. ~

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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