"A new untruth is better than an old truth."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"You have nothing to lose, only to live."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."

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"Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason."

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"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."

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"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."

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"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."

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"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."

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"The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done.""

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"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."

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"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."

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"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good."

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