"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."

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"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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

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

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"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Science is a careful investigation."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Sarah Dessen, 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."

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

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"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."

"People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit."

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"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."

"Look back, and smile on perils past."

"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."

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"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."

"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."

"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."