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The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Albert Einstein   
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein   
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi   
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
Mohandas Gandhi   
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Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth.
Mohandas Gandhi   
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So many people today — and even professional scientists — seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is — in my opinion — the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth. Letter to Robert A. Thorton, Physics Professor at University of Puerto Rico (7 December 1944).
Albert Einstein   
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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Winston Churchill   
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I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.
Muhammad Ali   
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Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
Mohandas Gandhi   
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One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
Albert Einstein   
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of the truth.
Mohandas Gandhi   
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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.
Winston Churchill   
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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
Mohandas Gandhi   
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In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill   
posted: santomas
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The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is. Speech in the House of Commons
Winston Churchill   
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Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
Kurt Vonnegut   
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.
Mohandas Gandhi   
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Truth was the only daughter of Time.
Leonardo da Vinci   
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck   
posted: u235
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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton   
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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei   
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Art is a lie that leads us to the truth.
Pablo Picasso   
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Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
Leonardo da Vinci   
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Never apologize for showing feeling...When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli   
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