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TRUTH: If you bury the truth, a thousand lies will sprout from the soil. (Unknown Source)
TRUTH: Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. (Unknown Source)
TRUTH: On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain. Either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. (Unknown Source)
TRUTH: The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. (Hannah Arendt, German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)
TRUTH: If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. (E.O. Wilson, U.S. biologist, researcher, and theorist, Born 1929)
TRUTH: Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. (Edward Abbey, U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)
TRUTH: Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. (Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)
TRUTH: On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
TRUTH: As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)
TRUTH: Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. (Gautama Buddha, an Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE)
TRUTH: The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. (Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, Born 1934)
TRUTH: The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which people prefer not to hear. (Herbert Agar, U.S. journalist and historian, 1897-1980)
TRUTH: If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
TRUTH: The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. (Hannah Arendt, German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)
TRUTH: In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. (George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, 1903-1950)
TRUTH: All great truths begin as blasphemies. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
TRUTH: Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. (Henry Wotton, English author, diplomat, and politician, 1568-1639)