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• The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

  Ann Landers

  Positive, Witty, Women

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Football, Lying, Honor

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.5.

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• The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Trust, Philosophical, Law

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• It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

  Charles Dickens

  Greatness, Men, Melancholy

  Bleak House ch. 28 (1853)

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• Truth will only make you unpopular.

  Wolfgang Borchert

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• Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

  Hosea Ballou

  Courage, Cowardice, Falsehood

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• Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spirit, Worship, Places Of Worship

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• If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

  J. D. Salinger

  Childhood, Parent, Want

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 1

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• If we try hard to do what that truth requires of us, God will send more light and more truth. It will go on, line after line, as long as we choose to obey the truth. That is why the Savior said that the man who obeyed His commandments built on a rock so solid that no storm of flood could hurt his house.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Hurt, Men, Light

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• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

  George Eliot

  May, Knowledge Is Power, Scruples

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2985, Delphi Classics

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• Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

  Edmund Burke

  Imagination, Fiction, Lag

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

  Charles George Gordon

  Infinite, Ifs, Telling The Truth

  Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan

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• How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Firsts, Moral

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• One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

  William Hazlitt

  Regret, World, Able

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.284

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• Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hurt, Blood, Broken

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.238

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• Truth is no road to fortune.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Truth Is, Fortune

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• You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

  Norman Douglas

  Epigrams

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• You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

  Joseph Joubert

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• Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Giving, World

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• People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Opinion, Probability

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• The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

  Luther Burbank

  Love, Science, May

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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• We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Truth Is, Grain, Happens

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 605), 1895.

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• The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Dawn, Elements, Advent

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.219

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• A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Errors

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.112, 北戴河出版

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• Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

  Andre Gide

  Believe, Profound, Doubt

  "Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits". Book by André Gide, p. 174, 1952.

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