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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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Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. ↗

— Richard Bach

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Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it? ↗

— David Baldacci

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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue. ↗

— William Tyndale

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Science is but an image of the truth. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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