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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
“Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.”
“The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.”
“Logic is the art of making truth prevail.”
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
“Character is like a tree & reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing. ”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”
“God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.”
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”
“God is truth and light his shadow.”
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
“No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.”
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.”
“False happiness is like false money, it passes for a long time as well as the true,and serves some ordinary occasions, but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.”
“One religion is as true as another.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
“The conqueror and king in each of us is the... Knower of truth... Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.”
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.”
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
“Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.”
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