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"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."

"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."

"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."
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"As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'"


"Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light."


"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself."


"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."


"In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us."
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