#truth

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. ↗

— George Berkeley

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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. ↗

— William Bernbach

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When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. ↗

— S.N. Goenka

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But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job. ↗

— Frank Black

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It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

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The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. ↗

— Max Born

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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. ↗

— Phyllis Bottome

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