"He said true things, but called them by wrong names."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

Truth, Names, Wrong

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

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"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

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"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

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"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

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Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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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."

"We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending."

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"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."

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"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"

"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."

"First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white."