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The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.
Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.
I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.
In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.
Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love.
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.