"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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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

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"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."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."

John Green, American Author

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"Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"Truth will keep on telling the truthLies will lie to be more uncouthNo more rainbow after the stormNowhere to escape leaving the norm."

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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

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"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."

"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."

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"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."

"Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative."

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"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"

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

"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt."

"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."

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