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Image of Antonio Machado
Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
- Antonio Machado
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Image of Horace Mann
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
- Horace Mann
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Image of Horace Mann
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
- Horace Mann
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Image of Malcolm X
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.
- Malcolm X
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Image of George MacDonald
Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.
- George MacDonald
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Image of Herman Melville
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
- Herman Melville
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Image of H. L. Mencken
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.
- H. L. Mencken
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of Steve Martin
A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
- Steve Martin
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Image of Horace Mann
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
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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
- Horace Mann
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Image of Cormac McCarthy
The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.
- Cormac McCarthy
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Image of Cormac McCarthy
When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
- Cormac McCarthy
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Image of H. L. Mencken
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of Bill Maher
All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!
- Bill Maher
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Image of Bill Maher
Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.
- Bill Maher
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Image of David O. McKay
True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.
- David O. McKay
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Image of John Masefield
Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.
- John Masefield
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Image of Herman Melville
All truth is profound.
- Herman Melville
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Image of Anthony Standen
Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.
- Anthony Standen
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Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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Image of H. L. Mencken
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of James Russell Lowell
For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
- James Russell Lowell
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Image of H. L. Mencken
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of Martin Luther
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
- Martin Luther
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Image of Rollo May
To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
- Rollo May
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Image of George R. R. Martin
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of Malcolm X
We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.
- Malcolm X
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Image of James Russell Lowell
Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.
- James Russell Lowell
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Image of James Russell Lowell
Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
- James Russell Lowell
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Image of Anthony de Mello
You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
- Anthony de Mello
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Image of Karl Barth
Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.
- Karl Barth
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Image of W. Somerset Maugham
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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Image of Herman Melville
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
- Herman Melville
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Image of James Madison
The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- James Madison
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Image of Malcolm X
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.
- Malcolm X
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Image of James Russell Lowell
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
- James Russell Lowell
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Image of James Russell Lowell
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
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Image of Malcolm X
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
- Malcolm X
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Image of George MacDonald
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.
- George MacDonald
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
- Leo Tolstoy
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