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“Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes (Russian Novelist and Writer, 1821-1881)

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“By doubting we come at truth.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)

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“If there is no immortality, there is no virtue”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes (Russian Novelist and Writer, 1821-1881)

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“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes (Russian Novelist and Writer, 1821-1881)

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“The first reaction to truth is hatred”

Tertullian quotes

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“If God does not exist, then everything is permitted”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes (Russian Novelist and Writer, 1821-1881)

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“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth”

Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes (Russian novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature (1970), b.1918)

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“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”

Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)

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“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.”

Publius Cornelius Tacitus quotes

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“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”

Walter Cronkite quotes (American Journalist well known for his role as a television news anchor, b.1916)

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