Truth Quotes
These are some of the best 'Truth' quotations and sayings.
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A charitable untruth, an uncharitable truth, and an unwise management of truth or love, are all to be carefully avoided of him that would go with a right foot in the narrow way.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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A truth that is merely acquired from others only clings to us as a limb added to the body, or as a false tooth, or a wax nose. A truth we have acquired by our our own mental exertions, is like our natural limbs, which really belong to us. - This is exactly the difference between an original thinker and the mere learned man.
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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. - I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
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Accustom your children to a strict attention to truth, even in the most minute particulars. If a thing happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly cheek them; you do not know where deviations from truth will end.
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All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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All truth undone becomes unreal; "he that doeth his will shall know," says Jesus.
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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
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As has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth," And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world."
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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
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Christianity knows no truth, which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
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