#truth

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#falsity #lack #nor #sign #truth

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#each #embraces #faith #many #other

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

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