"One lie will keep out forty truths."

Truth, Lies, Deception, Reality

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Truth, Fact, Reality

"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Truth, Pain, Reality, Discovery

"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Truth, Darkness, Falsehood, Light

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Truth, Experience, Knowledge, Personal

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Truth, Perception, Differences

"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Truth, Peace, Guidance, Sharing

"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

Mark Twain, American Author

Truth, Memory, Falsehood, Reality

"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Truth, Pessimism, Life, Reality

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

Truth, Lies, Self, Deception

"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Truth, Failure, Life, Experience, Learning

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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

Observation

"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."

Philosophy

"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

Philosophy

"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."

Wisdom

"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."

Truth

"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."

Knowledge

"Everything depends on the right perspective."

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."

"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."

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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."

"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."

"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."

"Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together."

"The most difficult things to grasp are the simplest."

"The self is the only thing you can ever truly know."

"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."

"Everything depends on the right perspective."