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Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. — Robert Breault
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the… — Laozi
The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him. — Confucius
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. — Bertrand Russell
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to… — Katherine Anne Porter
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. — Vaclav Havel
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of… — Khalil Gibran
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. — Henry Ward Beecher
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by… — Baron d'Holbach
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent… — Yukio Mishima
No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to… — Marya Mannes
There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union.… — Cesar Chavez
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. — Rumi
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? — Groucho Marx
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and… — Abraham Lincoln
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain… — Jonathan Swift
Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances… — Marcel Proust
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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