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For monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a raccoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

—Terence McKenna

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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

—H. L. Mencken

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everybody has a personal truth. A personal truth is what you believe about yourself when nobody’s listening and nobody’s watching.

—Phillip C. McGraw

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

—Mark Twain

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The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth; little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance; little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union.

—Marilyn Sewell

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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

—H. L. Mencken

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

—Virginia Woolf

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Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

—Edgar Watson Howe

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I recently invented a new theory: ambitheism. This is the doctrine that God both does and doesn't exist. I have noticed that when I try to believe in God, I am filled with sudden moments of despair that God is absent, but when I try to be an atheist, I slowly come to believe in a divine will. Thus, I have concluded that both ideas are true. God simultaneously is and isn't.

—Michael Gorelick

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The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there’s nothing anyone can do or say. It’s broken.

—Gabrielle Zevin in In the Age of Love and Chocolate

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

—Galileo Galilei

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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

—Wilson Mizner

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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.

—Veronica Roth in Insurgent

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