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Truth does not change
according to our ability
to stomach it emotionally.

Flannery O’Connor

   

In every generation there have to be some fools who will speak the truth as they see it.

Boris Pasternak

      

I want. . . to endeavor to speak truth in every instance; to give nobody expectations that are not likely to be answered, but aim at sincerity in every word and action--the most amiable excellence in a rational being.

Benjamin Franklin

  
The active pursuit of truth is our proper business.  We have no excuse for conducting it badly or unfittingly.  But failing to capture our prey is another matter.  For we are born to quest after it; to possess it belongs to a greater power.  Truth is not, as Democritus said, hidden in the depths of the abyss, but situated rather at an infinite height in the divine understanding.  The world is but a school of inquiry.

Michel de Montaigne

 
  
Truth has no special time of its own.  Its hour is now--always.

Albert Schweitzer
   

Keep one thing forever in view--the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of people, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

Horace Mann

 

Gradually I came to see that I could use the Bible,
which had so baffled me, as an instrument for digging out precious truths,
just as I could use my hindered, halting body for the high behests of my spirit.

Helen Keller

  

 
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
 

Pour out light and truth as God pours sunshine and rain;
no longer seek knowledge as the luxury of a few,
but dispense it amongst all as the bread of life.

Horace Mann

   

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I never give them hell.  I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.

Harry S. Truman

 

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been
recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
A truth is something that everyone can be shown to know and
to have known, as people say, all along.

Mary McCarthy

    

It's not enough to know your truth; you must live it!

Stephen C. Paul

   

It is not always easy to hear the truth, but . . . . the truth can lead us
on to be better than we already are.  When we walk in the truth,
we are walking toward God.  God is truth, and the more time we spend
in honesty, the more time we spend with God.  Not only should we seek out
truth in others, but we should let others know that they will receive truth
when they come to us.  There is very little we could want more than for
other people to be able to trust us.  Trust is the cornerstone upon which
solid and lasting friendships are built.  We can do a person
no greater service than to deal with them in truth and love.

Dan and Nancy Dick

  

If you do not tell the truth about yourself,
you cannot tell it about other people.


Virginia Woolf

   

It is through the idealism of youth that people catch
sight of truth, and in that idealism they possess a wealth
which they must never exchange for anything else.

Albert Schweitzer

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish proverb

 
To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved
punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.  On the other hand,
to teach one to try one's best to avoid the truth--even to press it
when necessary toward the outer edge of the rainbow--for a reason
of kindness, or of mercy, is far closer to the heart of truth than
to repeat something accurately and mercilessly that will cruelly
hurt the feelings of someone.

Emily Post
 

The Buddha spoke gently, "Once a person is caught by belief
in a doctrine, one loses all one's freedom.  When one
becomes dogmatic, that person believes his or her doctrine
is the only truth and that all other doctrines are heresy.
Disputes and conflicts all arise from narrow views.  They can
extend endlessly, wasting precious time and sometimes even
leading to war.  Attachment to views is the greatest impediment
to the spiritual path.  Bound to narrow views, one becomes
so entangled that it is no longer possible
to let the door of truth open."


Thich Nhat Hanh

 
Truth is a non-transferable ticket
which bears only one name.

Yatri

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always
been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

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.

John Bradshaw

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

 

 

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven
and on earth; and the person who would be blessed
and happy should be from the first a partaker of
truth, for then that person can be trusted.

Plato

   

Truth ever has the most strength of what people say.

Sophocles


The truth is always the strongest argument.

 

   

Once the truth is told, you never need to pretend again.

Stephen C. Paul

   

Always remember that you can be dead right about
the facts and altogether wrong about the truth.

Daniel

   

It came to me ever so slowly that the best way to know
the truth was to begin trusting what my inner truth was. . .
and trying to share it--not right away--only after I had
worked hard at trying to understand it.

Fred Rogers
The World According to Mr. Rogers

   
Articles and book excerpts on truth:

Integrity      Paul Bauer

   

Such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks,
and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

     

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

   

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

André Gide

   

   
Paracelsus

Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness; and around
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
This perfect, clear perception--which is truth.
A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
Binds it, and makes all error:  and, to know
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.

Robert Browning
   
   
To love truth is the principal part of human perfection in this world,
and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

John Locke
   

We must make the truth as simple, as persuasive, as impelling
and as interesting as the lie often seems to be.  The truth can
never enslave, it can never mesmerize.  The truth is always
within us.  We do not awaken to an eternal fact, but to an
eternal birthright which is the innermost of realities.  Let us,
then, recapture our thinking by getting back to first principles.
When once we see the meaning of God, and the human's
relationship to God, nothing can enslave our thinking again.

Erwin D. Canham

   

The most casual student of history knows that, as a matter of fact,
truth does not necessarily vanquish.  What is more, truth can never
win unless it is promulgated.  Truth does not carry within itself an
anti-toxin to falsehood.  The cause of truth must be championed,
and it must be championed dynamically.

William F. Buckley, Jr.
God and Man at Yale


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When Walker first steps onto the road, he has no thoughts, no history, no memories, and no clothes. As he travels and meets people and learns from them, he comes to know more about life, living, and becoming the person he's meant to be. Walker is a parable for all of us who wonder what might be the purpose of life, why bad things happen with almost as much regularity as good things, and how we can learn from the bad examples and experiences in our lives as much as we can learn from the good things. Tom Walsh's parable is a story of the ages, a timeless exploration of ideas and thoughts that all of us wonder about, a sincere and heartfelt portrait of a man who has no past and no future, but who learns to make the most of each precious present moment as it comes.