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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Truth is a great flirt. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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The truth is always more heroic than the hype. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

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I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. ↗

— Horace Mann

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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. ↗

— Horace Mann

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