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Truth does not change
according to our ability
to
stomach it emotionally.
Flannery O’Connor
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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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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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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
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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
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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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Not truth,
but faith, it is that
keeps the world alive.
Edna St.
Vincent Millay
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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.
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.
Mary
McCarthy
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It's
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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If you do not
tell the truth about yourself,
you cannot tell it
about other people.
Virginia Woolf
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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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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 |
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always
been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
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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
Bradshaw
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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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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her
greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is
Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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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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
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Such
is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks,
and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine |
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The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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To love the
truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
André Gide |
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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.
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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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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
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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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