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If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.
Cosmos (1980) p. 67 -
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies.
Bhagavadgita Ch. 2, v. 19 -
If ceaseless vigilance is the price of liberty, more so is it true that ceaseless criticism of ever new opinions and ever new views, however distasteful, bizarre, and paradoxical, is the price of truth.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919) -
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Campaign statement in Fresno, California (10 September 1952) -
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.
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If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
De grote Indiase roman (1993) 48
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