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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. - Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days--June--Goethe Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Marcellinus Ammianus (Marellinus Ammian or Ammianus Marcellinus) Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged by silence. - Marcellinus Ammianus (Marellinus Ammian or Ammianus Marcellinus) The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. [Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.] - Marcellinus Ammianus (Marellinus Ammian or Ammianus Marcellinus), Annales (XIV, 10) Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.] - Marcellinus Ammianus (Marellinus Ammian or Ammianus Marcellinus), Annales (XXVI) Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. - Aristotle Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. - Matthew Arnold Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. - Francis Bacon But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. - Francis Bacon, Essays--Of Truth You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Bailey For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth. - Honore de Balzac How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love. - James Beattie, The Minstrel (bk. II, st. 53) To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Wit at Several Weapons (act II) And with that he held his peace. And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is Truth, and mighty above all things. - Bible, Esdra (Apocrypha) (ch. IV, v. 41) But above all things truth is victor. - Bible, inscription on the New York Public Library, I Esdras (ch. III, v. 12) Great is truth, and strongest of all. - Bible, I Esdras (ch. IV, v. 41) Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. - Bible, John (ch. VIII, v. 32) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. - Bible, John (ch. VIII, v. 44) As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw) God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! - William Blake, circa 1808, "Notes on Reynold's Discourses" The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Henrik David Bohr Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, L'Art Poetique (I, 198) At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, L'Art Poetique (III, 48) Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed. - Horatius Bonar, D.D., Hymns of Faith and Hope (p. 113), (ed. 1813) The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. - Max Born Displaying page 1 of 11 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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