#truth

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us. ↗

— Garth Stein

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The truth is that men are tired of liberty. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

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If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth. ↗

— Wally Lamb

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We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed. ↗

— James Newman

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I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ↗

— Isaac Newton

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It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own. ↗

— James Otis

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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. ↗

— Charles Pierce

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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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