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Quotations
Truth

Quotations that illuminate our world.

The source format of the quotes is as follows:
- Real person: - their name 
- Fictional characters: - character's name, book/movie of origin, if book then author
- Poem, song, or book: - poem, song, or book, author

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr

Look and you will find- what is unsought will go undetected.
- Sophocles

One who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to discover places no one has ever been before.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained by someone who is detached.
- Simone Weil

It is a very rare man who is taken for what he truly is.
-Schmendrick the Wizard, The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
- Edgar Allen Poe

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
- French proverb

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7, The Bible

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