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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. - Frederick Douglass How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four (ch. 6) Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil. - John Dryden For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. - John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther (pt. I, l. 33) Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. - William James (Will) Durant Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. - Johann Echkart (Meister Eckhart) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Truth is immortal; error is mortal. - Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, Science and Health (ch. XIV) If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein Truth is what stands the test of experience. - Albert Einstein In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. - Paul Eldridge Veracity is a plant of Paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Armgart (sc. 2) The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed, but where they speak and think and do what they must, because they are so and not otherwise. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth is the summit of being. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth is too simple for us; we do not like those who unmask our illusions. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Quatrains--Sacrifice Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them. - Epictetus I am conquered by truth. [Lat., Vincer veris.] - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus, Diluculum Displaying page 6 of 19 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
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