"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."

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"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."

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

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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."

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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"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."

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"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences."

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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

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"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."

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"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."

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