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Too much truth is uncouth.Truth
Adams, Franklin P.
1881-1960 American Journalist Humorist
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.
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Adler, Alfred
1870-1937 Austrian Psychiatrist
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.
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Alder, Alfred
1870-1937 German Author
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
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Anderson, Sherwood
1876-1941 American Writer
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
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Arendt, Hannah
1906-1975 German-born American Political Philosopher
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Augustine, St.
354-430 Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo Theologian
One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
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.
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Bach, Dr. Marcus
American Authority on the World's Religions and Inter-cultural Relations
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior s Manual]
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Bach, Richard
1936 American Author
Not being known doesn t stop the truth from being true.
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Bach, Richard
1936 American Author
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
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Backus, Azel
American College President
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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Bailey, Pearl
1918-1990 American Vocalist Movie and Stage Actress
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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Baldwin, James
1924-1987 American Author
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
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Baldwin, James
1924-1987 American Author
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
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Balfour, Arthur James
1848-1930 British Conservative Politician Prime Minister
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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Ballou, Hosea
1771-1852 American Theologian Founder of Universalism
There s a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
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Barnes, Leonard
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.
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Baudrillard, Jean
French Postmodern Philosopher Writer
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.
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Benjamin, Walter
1982-1940 German Critic Philosopher
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Berenson, Bernard
1865-1959 Lithuanian-born American Artist
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
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Berlin, Irving
1888-1989 Russian Composer
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.
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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Seek and you will find.
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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]
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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The truth shall set you free.
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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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Billings, Josh
1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer
I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
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Birmingham, Wayne
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Bismarck, Otto Von
1815-1898 Prussian Statesman Prime Minister
The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
A truth that s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
The great seal of truth is simplicity.
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Boerhaave, Herman
1668-1738 Dutch Physician Botanist
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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Bohr, Niels
1885-1962 Danish Physicist
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Bohr, Niels
1885-1962 Danish Physicist
Truth alone wounds.
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Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
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Borne, Ludwig
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Bradley, Francis H.
1846-1924 British Philosopher
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.
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Bradshaw, John
American Author Lecturer Leading Expert Recovery and Dysfunctional Families
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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Brandes, George
1842-1927 Swedish Author
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.
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Brittain, Vera
1893-1970 British Writer
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
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Browne, Sir Thomas
1605-1682 British Author Physician Philosopher
Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.
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Browning, Robert
1812-1889 British Poet
Truth never hurts the teller.
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Browning, Robert
1812-1889 British Poet
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
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Bryant, William C.
1794-1878 American Poet Newspaper Editor
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
1803-1873 British Novelist Poet
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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Butler, Samuel
1612-1680 British Poet Satirist
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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Butler, Samuel
1612-1680 British Poet Satirist
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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Camus, Albert
1913-1960 French Existential Writer
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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Carrel, Alexis
1873-1944 French Biologist
What I tell you three times is true.
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Carroll, Lewis
1832-1898 British Writer Mathematician
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Cervantes, Miguel De
1547-1616 Spanish Novelist Dramatist Poet
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Cervantes, Miguel De
1547-1616 Spanish Novelist Dramatist Poet
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
See it like it is!
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Cohen, Herb
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.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
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Cooper, James F.
1789-1851 American Novelist
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.
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Cowper, William
1731-1800 British Poet
Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.
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Cronkite, Walter
1916 American Broadcast Journalist
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
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Darrow, Clarence
1857-1938 American Lawyer
Chase after the truth like all hell and you ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Darrow, Clarence
1857-1938 American Lawyer
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
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Davies, Robertson
1913 Canadian Novelist Journalist
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
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Davies, Robertson
1913 Canadian Novelist Journalist
Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently
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Deupree, Richard
I am always going to be true to myself.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
1961-1997 Wife of Charles Prince of Wales
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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Dickens, Charles
1812-1870 British Novelist
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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Dickinson, Emily
1830-1886 American Poet
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
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Dickinson, Emily
1830-1886 American Poet
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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Diderot, Denis
1713-1784 French Philosopher
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
1859-1930 British Author Sherlock Holmes
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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Durrell, Lawrence
1912-1990 British Author
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
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Eckhart, Meister
1260-1326 AD German Mystic
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Anyone who doesn t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
1890-1969 Thirty-fourth President of the USA
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
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Ellenborough, Lord
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-
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Emre, Yumus
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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Epictetus
50-120 Stoic Philosopher
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Epictetus
50-120 Stoic Philosopher
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
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Farnham, Eliza
American Author and Social Reformist
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier
1657-1757 Scientist Man of Letter
The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
1712-1786 Born in Berlin King of Prussia (1740-1786)
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
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Freud, Sigmund
1856-1939 Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
The truth simply is that s all. It doesn t need reasons: it doesn t have to be right: it s just the truth. Period.
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Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)
1874-1939 American-Born French Painter
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.
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Fuller, Max
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
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Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
Seeing is believing, but feeling s the truth.
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Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one s opponent.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
There is no god higher than truth.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
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Gerould, Katherine F.
Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.
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Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Gide, Andre
1869-1951 French Author
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
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Goldwyn, Samuel
1882-1974 American Film Producer Founder MGM
I don t want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
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Goldwyn, Samuel
1882-1974 American Film Producer Founder MGM
Truth isn t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Gordimer, Nadine
1923 South African Author
What is, is; and what ain t, ain t
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Granville, Joseph E.
You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.
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Guest, Edgar A.
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
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Gwyn, Doug
True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
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Halifax, Edward F.
1881-1959 British Conservative Statesman
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
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Hall, Calvin S.
Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.
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Hamilton, Sir William
1730-1803 Scottish Diplomat Antiquary
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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Hare, J. C.
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.
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Havel, Vaclav
1936 Czech Playwright President
I m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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Hayakawa, S. I.
1902-1992 Canadian Born American Senator Educator
Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.
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Helvetius, Claude A.
1715-1771 French Philosopher
I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.
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Hemingway, Ernest
1898-1961 American Writer
There s no one thing that is true. They re all true.
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Hemingway, Ernest
1898-1961 American Writer
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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Herbert, Frank
1920-1986 American Writer
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
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Hesiod
8th century BC Greek Poet
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Hesse, Hermann
1877-1962 German-born Swiss Novelist Poet
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Hesse, Hermann
1877-1962 German-born Swiss Novelist Poet
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Howard, Vernon
19-1992 American Author Speaker
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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Howard, Vernon
19-1992 American Author Speaker
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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Howe, Edgar Watson
1853-1937 American Journalist Author
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.
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Hsueh-Dou
Live truth instead of professing it.
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
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Hussein, King
1935 King of Jordan
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 British Author
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 British Author
It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.
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Huxley, Thomas H.
1825-1895 British Biologist Educator
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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Huxley, Thomas H.
1825-1895 British Biologist Educator
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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Jerrold, Douglas William
1803-1857 British Humorist Playwright
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
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Joubert, Joseph
1754-1824 French Moralist
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
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Keats, John
1795-1821 British Poet
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
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Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963 Thirty-fifth President of the USA
No matter what you believe, it doesn t change the facts.
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Kersha, Al
A hair divides what is false and true.
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Khayyam, Omar
1048-1131 Persian Astronomer Poet
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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Lamb, Charles
1775-1834 British Essayist Critic
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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Lec, Stanislaw J.
1909 Polish Writer
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
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Lee, Bruce
1940-1973 Chinese-American Actor Director Author Martial Artist
There s nothing you can know that isn t known.
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Lennon, John
1940-1980 British Rock Musician
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
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Lewis, C. S.
1898-1963 British Academic Writer Christian Apologist
Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.
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Liebig
Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
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Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
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Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
1906 American Author
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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Locke, John
1632-1704 British Philosopher
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
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Low, Albert
American Author
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.
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Lowell, James Russell
1819-1891 American Poet Critic Editor
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Lowell, James Russell
1819-1891 American Poet Critic Editor
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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Lowell, James Russell
1819-1891 American Poet Critic Editor
Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
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Luther, Martin
1483-1546 German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
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Luther, Martin
1483-1546 German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
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Lynes, Russell
1910 American Editor Critic
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
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Malcolm X
1925-1965 American Black Leader Activist
We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.
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Malcolm X
1925-1965 American Black Leader Activist
Always tell the truth -- it s the easiest thing to remember.
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Mamet, David
1947 American Playwright
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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Mann, Horace
1796-1859 American Educator
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
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Mann, Horace
1796-1859 American Educator
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)
c370-300 BC Chinese Philosopher
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.
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Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956 American Editor Author Critic Humorist
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956 American Editor Author Critic Humorist
We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.
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Merzel, David
Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.
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Middleton, Owen C.
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.
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Mill, John Stuart
1806-1873 British Philosopher Economist
I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
1533-1592 French Philosopher Essayist
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.
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Morgan, John Pierpont
1837-1913 American Banker Financier Art Collector
Truth and virtue conquer.
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Motto
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
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Murrow, Edward R.
1908-1965 American Journalist Broadcaster
The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
Truth is something which can t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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Nin, Anais
1914-1977 French-born American Novelist Dancer
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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Norris, Frank
1870-1902 American Novelist
there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
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Nunn, Gregory
1955 American Golfer
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
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O'Malley, Austin
Telling someone the truth is a loving act.
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Pancoast, Mal
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
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Pancoast, Mal
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
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Penn, William
1644-1718 British Religious Leader Founder of Pennsylvania
I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
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Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Pindar
BC 518-18438 Greek Poet
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
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Pirsig, Robert M.
American Author
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.
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Pirsig, Robert M.
American Author
The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they re simple only when you know already what they are.
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Pirsig, Robert M.
American Author
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Planck, Max
1858-1947 German Theoretical Physicist
Truth is its own reward.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
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Prentice, George D.
American Editor
Time tries truth.
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Proverb
Tell the truth and then run.
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Proverb
Truth is the daughter of time.
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Proverb
Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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Proverb
Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.
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Proverb, Danish
Sayings of Danish Origin
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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Proverb, Greek
Sayings of Greek Origin
It is the truth that irritates a person.
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Proverb, Spanish
Sayings of Spanish Origin
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Proverb, Turkish
Sayings of Turkish Origin
A half truth is a whole lie.
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Proverb, Yiddish
Sayings of Yiddish Origin
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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Quesnel, Pasquier
1634-1719 French Jansenist Theologian
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Rabelais, Francois
1495-1553 French Satirist Physician and Humanist
You ll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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Rayburn, Sam
1882-1961 American Representative
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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Renard, Jules
1864-1910 French Author Dramatist
Truth is reality.
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Richards, Mary Caroline
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
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Richards, R. Scott
True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.
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Richter, Jean Paul
1763-1825 German Novelist
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
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Ringer, Robert J.
American Writer
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
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Rogers, Will
1879-1935 American Humorist Actor
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.
1882-1945 Thirty-second President of the USA
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
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Rosen, Richard D.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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Rostand, Jean
1894-1977 French Biologist Writer
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
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Rosten, Leo
1908-1997 Polish Born American Political Scientist
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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Rousseau, Jean Jacques
1712-1778 Swiss Political Philosopher Educationist Essayist
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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Rousseau, Jean Jacques
1712-1778 Swiss Political Philosopher Educationist Essayist
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
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Runbeck, Margaret Lee
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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Russell, Utterly
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
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Sabbah
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
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Saroyan, William
1908-1981 American Writer Novelist Playwright
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
1759-1805 German Dramatist Poet Historian
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788-1860 German Philosopher
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.
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Schweitzer, Albert
1875-1965 German Born Medical Missionary Theologian Musician and Philosopher
The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
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Seabury, David
American Doctor Author
What is true belongs to me!
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Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
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Shaftesbury, Lord
1671-1713 British Statesman
While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
Life s experiences are intended to make you eventually face your