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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Original:Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit als Lügen.
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Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
Lord of the Silver Bow (2005) -
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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