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~ Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. ~

Desiderius Erasmus

~ Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ~

Ansel Adams

~ Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. ~

Leonardo da Vinci

~ Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. ~

Swami Vivekananda

~ The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. ~

Cicero

~ Truth never needs to justify itself. ~

Glenn Curtis Maddox

~ Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth ~

Jean de la Bruyere

~ Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness ~

Henry B. Eyring

~ Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation ~

William Gilmore Simms

~ If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry ~

Rachel Carson

~ In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be.. ~

Niccolo Machiavelli

~ The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administrationís duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not. ~

Senator John Kerry

~ I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. ~

Francis Bacon

~ I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little. ~

James Ellroy

~ Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth. ~

Lactantius

~ Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. ~

Henry Mayhew

~ We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self. ~

Marcus Bach

~ When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker. ~

Virginia Woolf

~ On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience ~

Anthony Quinn

~ The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. ~

Barbra Streisand

~ The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. ~

Barbra Streisand

~ The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. ~

Barbra Streisand

~ Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ~

Victor Borge

~ Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth ~

Victor Borge

~ We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts. ~

Nicholas

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