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Truth does not change
according to our ability
to
stomach it emotionally.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Mary
McCarthy
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not enough to know your truth, you must live it!
Stephen C.
Paul
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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.
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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.
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In
every generation there have to be some fools
who will speak
the truth as they see it.
Boris Pasternak
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There's an element of truth in every idea
that lasts long enough
to be called corny.
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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 |
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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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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. |
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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
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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.
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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
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Truth is a non-transferable ticket
which bears only one name.
Yatri |
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always
been in excess of the demand.
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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.
John
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be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as
oil does above water.
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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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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
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Not truth,
but faith, it is that
keeps the world alive.
Edna St.
Vincent Millay
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People stumble over the
truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as
if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill
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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
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We
arrive at truth, not
by reason only, but also
by the heart.
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Truth
is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham
Lincoln
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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 |
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Truth ever has
the most strength of what people say.
Sophocles The
truth is always the strongest argument. |
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Once the truth is told, you never need to pretend
again.
Stephen C. Paul |
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Always remember that you can
be dead right about
the facts and altogether wrong about
the truth.
Daniel
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