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"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."
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Butler
"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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