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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for
the most part, refuse to be written.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Source: Concord Days--June--Goethe
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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
[Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.]
Author: Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus)
Source: Annales (XIV, 10)
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Truth is often attended with danger.
[Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
Author: Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus)
Source: Annales (XXVI)
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But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Truth
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How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.
Author: James Beattie
Source: The Minstrel (bk. II, st. 53)
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To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Wit at Several Weapons (act II)
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But above all things truth is victor.
Author: Bible
Source: inscription on the New York Public Library, I Esdras (ch. III, v. 12)
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Great is truth, and strongest of all.
Author: Bible
Source: I Esdras (ch. IV, v. 41)
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Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye
continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. VIII, v. 32)
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Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in
the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a
lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of
it.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. VIII, v. 44)
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of
the demand.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. VIII, v. 44)
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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical
Demonstration!
Author: William Blake
Source: circa 1808, "Notes on Reynold's Discourses"
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Author: William Blake
Source: circa 1808, "Notes on Reynold's Discourses"
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Truth has not such an urgent air.
[Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: L'Art Poetique (I, 198)
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At times truth may not seem probable.
[Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: L'Art Poetique (III, 48)
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Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed.
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed.
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.
Author: Horatius Bonar, D.D.
Source: Hymns of Faith and Hope (p. 113), (ed. 1813)
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Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Author: Horatius Bonar, D.D.
Source: Hymns of Faith and Hope (p. 113), (ed. 1813)
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Truth is mighty and will prevail.
[Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
Author: Thomas Brooks
Source: he is said to have been the first to use the expression (1662)
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He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
Author: Thomas Brooks
Source: he is said to have been the first to use the expression (1662)
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If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]
Author: Giordano Bruno
Source: Degli Eroici Furori
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Truth crushed to earth shall rise again:
Th' eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers.
Author: Bear Bryant
Source: The Battle Field (st. 9)
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every
eye looking on finds its own.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Caxtoniana (essay XIV)
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Arm thyself for the truth!
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Lady of Lyons (act V, sc. 1)
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For truth is precious and divine;
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 257)
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'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III)
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
Source: None
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Author: Sherlock Holmes
Source: None
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Author: Lillian Hellman
Source: None
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth-- unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Author: Jerome K Jerome
Source: None
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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Author: Dr Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull
Source: None
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Author: Winston Churchill
Source: None
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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.
Author: Niels Bohr
Source: None
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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Author: Lenin
Source: None
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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Author: Galileo
Source: None
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Author: Immanuel Kant
Source: None
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Source: None
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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Author: Charles A Dana
Source: None
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: None
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Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
Author: H. A. Overstreet
Source: None
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War profiteer cartels
and the Cheney Wolfowitz regime
are called The United States
by warwhore news teams.
Everywhere including
peace loving Schenectady
the American people
dislike such synecdoches.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. Robert Kennedy The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -Doc Childre.
Author: Doc Childre
Source: None
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to Josette Champagne. -Dogen.
Author: Dogen
Source: None
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There was promulgation of false propaganda by
the administration about the existence of weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false
propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.
Author: Jimmy Carter
Source: None
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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
Author: Richard Whately
Source: None
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.
Author: Boris Pasternak
Source: None
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