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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. ↗

— Alan Cohen

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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' ↗

— Stephen Colbert

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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The truth is helpless when up against perception ↗

— Zack W. Van

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