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Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Best Quotes about Truth

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily