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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-Neils Bohr
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There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
-Neils Bohr
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Truth alone wounds.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
-Ludwig Borne
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
-Francis H. Bradley
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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
-John Bradshaw
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
-George Brandes
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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
-Vera Brittain
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
-Sir Thomas Browne
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Truth never hurts the teller.
-Robert Browning
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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.
-Robert Browning
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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
-William Cullen Bryant
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
-Samuel Butler
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
-Samuel Butler
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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
-Albert Camus
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
-Alexis Carrel
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What I tell you three times is true.
-Lewis Carroll
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
-G. K. Chesterton
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Books about Truth
