Quotes

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain

240

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

241

But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to distinguish him from darkness.

Thomas Paine

242

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.

René Descartes

243

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

244

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

245

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

246

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

247

In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence; the second, listening the third, remembering; the fourth, practicing; the fifth, teaching others.

Ibn Gabirol

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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

Benjamin Franklin

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