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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.
Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.
Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.