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Truth Quotes

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