"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out."

William F. Buckley, Jr., American Journalist

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"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts."

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