Quotes about Truth (page 9)

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“The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.”
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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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“The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.”
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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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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.”
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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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“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”
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“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”
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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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“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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“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
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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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“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.”
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“Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”
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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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“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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“Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.”
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“When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, ''That is the real thing.''”
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“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.”
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“Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.”
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“You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.”
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“The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.”
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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 truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.”
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“We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.”
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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.”
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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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“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
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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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“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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