"Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism."

Truth, Heroism, Service, Justice

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"Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism."

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Truth, Fact, Reality

"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

Truth, Pain, Reality, Discovery

"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

Truth, Darkness, Falsehood, Light

"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

Truth, Peace, Guidance, Sharing

"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

Truth, Memory, Falsehood, Reality

"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

Truth, Pessimism, Life, Reality

"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

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"Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing."

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"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight."

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"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

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"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last."

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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

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"The pay is good and I can walk to work."

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"I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant."

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"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive."

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"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce."

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