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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C.S. Lewis

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

George Carlin

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

Suzanne Collins

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

Sarah Dessen

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Albert Schweitzer

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

Lao Tzu

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

Rae Carson

All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

Suzanne Collins

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

C.S. Lewis

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

Marcus Aurelius

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

André Gide

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Swami Vivekananda

To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier.

Hlovate

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

Sarah Dessen

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness".

Aldous Huxley

Macy: In Truth, I said, there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: How do you win? he askedMacy: That, I said, is such a boy question.

Sarah Dessen

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

William Penn

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Aldous Huxley

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

William Pickens

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

C.S. Lewis

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Orson Scott Card

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

Beauty can only fight the truth for so long...

Soman Chainani

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Laurell K. Hamilton

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Holly Black

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

Miguel de Unamuno

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

George Eliot

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Virginia Woolf

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,How much would novels gain by the exchange!How differently the world would men behold!

George Gordon Byron

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