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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.
Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?
I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.
I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down... I'm not going to go anywhere.
As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.
There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
In the end, I still have the same hope as my father - that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.
There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.
Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.
If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.