#truth

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#because #comfortable #course #difficult #easiest

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#everything #truth #you

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#discovered #else #loses #someone #something

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

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The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#confirmed #history #liberate #only #oppressed

Wisdom is found only in truth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#found #only #truth

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#lost #temper #truth

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#desire #never #never underestimate #people #truth

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

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