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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment.

— Bertrand Russell

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it made enlargements too.

— Alexander Pope

Murder will out.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Love truth, but pardon error.

— Voltaire

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

— Samuel Johnson

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

— Mark Twain

This above all: to thine own self be true.

— William Shakespeare

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

— Voltaire

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

— C. S. Lewis

There is a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

— Maya Angelou

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when a man is afraid of the light.

— Plato

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

— Walt Whitman

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

— Oscar Wilde

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

— Emily Dickinson

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

— Leo Tolstoy

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

— Leo Tolstoy

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

— Leo Tolstoy

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

— Buddha

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

— Plato

Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

— John Keats

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