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In this world,
only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of
humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any
social consideration but are regarded by all as being
deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself --
only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the
truth. All the others lie.
-- Simone Weil
1910-1943, French
Philosopher, Mystic
I have done
more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the
honesty of trying to hurt.
-- Jessamyn West
1903-1984, American Author
As one may
bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to
believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end
with the inquiry, ''What is truth?''
-- Richard Whately
1787-1863, British Prelate,
Writer
Everyone
wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to
be on the side of truth.
-- Richard Whately
1787-1863, British Prelate,
Writer
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What is
morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority
then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they
dislike.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
Whatever
satisfies the soul is truth.
-- Walt Whitman
1819-1892, American Poet
The pure and
simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
If one tells
the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
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