#truth

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. ↗

— John Cleese

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It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are. ↗

— Stanley Fish

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Truth is life's most precious commodity. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

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Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out. ↗

— Dan Farmer

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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ↗

— William Jennings Bryant

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There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. ↗

— Lord Byron

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My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

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