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• It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Inquiring, Tradition

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.104, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

  Moses Harvey

  Love, Believe, Teaching

  Moses Harvey (1886). “Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress”

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• Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Integrity, Might

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.239, Modern Library

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• The truth is never pretty.

  Gerard Butler

  Reality, Truth Is

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• An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

  Emily Post

  Honesty, Coffee, People

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• A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Believe, Men, Knowing

  Frederic W. Farrar (2003). “History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885”, p.16, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

  Al Gore

  May, There Comes A Time, Seems

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• A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

  Austin O'Malley

  Worship, Enough, Idolatry

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• Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth Is, Humans, Falsehood

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• Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

  Austin O'Malley

  Doors, Rags, Miserable

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• The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

  Cyril Connolly

  Rivers, Arms, Splitting Up

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Law, Progress, Age

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• They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

  Fanny Kemble

  Loses

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

  George Eliot

  Sound, Half, Dull

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.25

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• The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

  George Eliot

  Disposition, Colour

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt ,The Radical”, p.469, George Eliot

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• Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Secret, Needed, Truth Of God

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Allies, He Man

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.229

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• There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

  Horace Mann

  Errors, Triumph, Joining

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.27

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• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Different Faces, Waiting

  James Russell Lowell (1886). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

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• History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

  Jane Hirshfield

  People, Stories, Fool

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• I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

  John Dryden

  Saws, Telling The Truth

  William Shakespeare, Mr. John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays”

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• Facts are many, but the truth is one.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Reality, Facts

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.16, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Truth is powerful and it prevails.

  Sojourner Truth

  Powerful, Black, Express Yourself

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• The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

  Paul Valery

  Honesty, Spring, Science

  "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci". Book by Paul Valery, 1895.

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• The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Chiefs, Intellect

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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