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Too much truth is uncouth.
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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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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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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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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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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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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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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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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
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Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
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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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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
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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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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
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I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.
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Seek and you will find.
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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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The truth shall set you free.
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Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent
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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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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
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The great seal of truth is simplicity.
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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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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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Truth alone wounds.
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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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.
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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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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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
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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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Truth never hurts the teller.
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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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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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What I tell you three times is true.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
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See it like it is!
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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.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
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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.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.
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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
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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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I am always going to be true to myself.
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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