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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ↗

— Joan of Arc

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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. ↗

— Louis Aragon

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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I try and be truthful. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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