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“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers”
William Penn quotes (English Quaker leader and Founder of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)
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“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
Martin Luther quotes (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)
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“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”
Billy Wilder quotes (Austrian-born American motion-picture scenarist, director and producer, 1906-2002)
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“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.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes (Russian novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature (1970), b.1918)
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“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves”
Abraham J. Heschel quotes (Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972)
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“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence”
Henri Frederic Amiel quotes (Swiss writer known for his masterpiece Journal intime, 1821-1881)
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“A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it”
William Penn quotes (English Quaker leader and Founder of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)
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“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident”
Arthur Schopenhauer quotes (German Philosopher, 1788-1860)
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“Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?”

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“Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes (Russian Novelist and Writer, 1821-1881)
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