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

Flannery O’Connor

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

John Locke

 

Life is short, but truth
works far and lives long;
let us speak the truth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

 

In proportion as we
perceive and
embrace the truth
we do become just,
heroic, magnanimous,
divine.

William Lloyd Garrison

 

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

  
 
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

 

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

 
 

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

  

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

Albert Schweitzer

Virginia Woolf

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

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

Boris Pasternak

 

 

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

Irving Berlin

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Robert Brault

 
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

  
 

No human being on the face of this earth possesses the whole truth.  Each of us has only a small part; but if we are willing to share our small parts, our pieces of the truth, we will all possess a much fuller reality, a much larger share of the total truth. . . . It's hard to imagine that a person could be totally wrong about any complex issue.  Everyone has some part of the truth to share.

John Powell, S.J.

 

I speak truth, not as much as I would,
but as much as I dare; and I dare a little
the more as I grow older.

Montaigne

 

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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

 
 
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.  Most of us
acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale,
successively, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin

 

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

  Winston Churchill

 

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

  
  

We arrive at truth, not
by reason only, but also
by the heart.

Pascal

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

   

 

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