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Truth Quotes
"Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see"
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Edgar Allan Poe
"A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts"
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth"
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Umberto Eco
"Sometimes you say things with a smiley face when you're really saying them with a frowny face"
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Umberto Eco
"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."
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Walt Whitman
"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in"
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Henry James
"Ideas are, in truth, forces infinite too for good or evil"
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Henry James
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth"
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Aesop
"Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good."
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"It's a tough time to be a truth teller."
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Dave Chappelle
"One cannot live through a day without revealing oneself."
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Italo Calvino
"Reality is not always probable or likely."
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Jorge Luis Borges
"The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination"
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Adam Smith
"Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it"
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Saint Augustine
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours"
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Hunter S. Thompson
"There is more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty"
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John Steinbeck
"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt"
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Rene Descartes
"Write hard and clear about what hurts"
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Ernest Hemingway
"The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it"
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George Carlin
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends"
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David Hume
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