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#1

“الحقيقة بحث... وليست وصولا!”
― نجيب محفوظ

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“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: common-sense, hermione-granger, knowledge, logic, reason, skepticism

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#3

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, skepticism

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#4

“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

tags: belief, beliefs, desire, philosophy, skepticism, wish

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#5

“It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
― Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street

tags: contradiction, heart, sentimentality, skepticism

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#6

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

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#7

“In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness."

(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers)”
― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]

tags: accuracy, conciseness, expression

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#8

“Supplying correct information and providing adequate tools to restructure the eroded parts in the minds of the people should be a primary condition for a well-oiled society. Fine-tuning the factuality and accuracy of issues is a paramount civic duty of each responsible individual. ("Labyrinth of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: accuracy, eroded, factuality, information, labyrinth, mind, responsible, restructure, society, tools

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#9

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#10

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: truth

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#11

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

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#12

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#13

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

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#14

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#15

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#16

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#17

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, reading, truth

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#18

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: gratitude, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, kindness, life, life-and-living, life-quotes, living-life, mindful, mindfulness, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, truth

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#19

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#20

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

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#21

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#22

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

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#23

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-forward, truth

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#24

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth

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#25

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth

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#26

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth

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#27

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth

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#28

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing

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#29

“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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#30

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: delight, heart, sorrow, truth, weeping

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