"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."

Truth, Amusement, Neighbors

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"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."

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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

Truth, Perception, Differences

"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

Truth, Lies, Self, Deception

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Truth, Future, Wisdom, Inspirational

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"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another."

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"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."

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"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."

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"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."

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"Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect."

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"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."

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"Avarice is the vice of declining years."

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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."

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"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."

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