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It's
essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be
corrected. -John
Bradshaw
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There are very few human
beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant
illumination. Most of us
acquire it fragment by fragment, on a
small scale,
successively, cellularly, like a laborious
mosaic. -Anais Nin
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| Always remember that you can
be dead right about
the facts and altogether wrong about
the truth. -Daniel |
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No
human being on the face of this earth possesses the whole
truth. Each of us has only a small part; but if we are
willing to share our small parts, our pieces of the truth,
we will all possess a much fuller reality, a much larger
share of the total truth. . . . It's hard to imagine that
a person could be totally wrong about any complex issue. Everyone has some part of the truth to
share. -John Powell,
S.J.
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| Gradually
I came to see that I could use the Bible,
which had so
baffled me, as an instrument for digging out precious
truths,
just as I could use my hindered, halting body for
the high behests of my spirit.
-Helen
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| It is through the idealism
of youth that people catch sight of truth, and in
that idealism they possess a wealth which they must
never exchange for anything
else. -Albert Schweitzer
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| To
tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to
avoid deserved
punishment--are all the blackest of black
lies. On the other hand,
to teach one to try one's best to
avoid the truth--even to press it
when necessary toward
the outer edge of the rainbow--for a reason
of kindness,
or of mercy, is far closer to the heart of truth than
to
repeat something accurately and mercilessly that will
cruelly
hurt the feelings of
someone. -Emily Post
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| Truth
is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth;
and
the person who would be blessed and happy
should be from the first a
partaker of truth,
for then that person can be
trusted. -Plato |
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| I want. .
. to endeavor to speak truth in every instance;
to give nobody
expectations that are not likely to be answered,
but aim at sincerity
in every word and action--the most amiable
excellence in a rational being. -Benjamin
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We
arrive at truth, not
by reason
only, but also
by the heart. -Pascal
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Truth
is generally the best vindication
against slander. -Abraham
Lincoln
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| People stumble over the
truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as
if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill
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| The Buddha spoke gently, "Once
a person is caught by belief
in a doctrine, one loses all one's freedom. When one
becomes dogmatic,
that person believes his or her doctrine
is the only truth and that all other doctrines
are heresy.
Disputes and conflicts all arise from narrow
views. They can
extend endlessly, wasting precious time
and sometimes even
leading to war. Attachment to views is
the greatest impediment
to the spiritual path. Bound to
narrow views, one becomes
so entangled that it is no
longer possible
to let the door of truth open."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
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| Once the truth is told, you never need to pretend
again. -Stephen C. Paul |
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| Truth ever has
the most strength of what people say.
-Sophocles |
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| In
every generation there have to be some fools
who will speak
the truth as they see it. -Boris Pasternak
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| There are no new truths, but
only truths that have not been
recognized by
those who have perceived them without noticing.
A truth is something that everyone can be
shown to know and
to have known, as people say,
all along. -Mary
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| Life
is short, but truth
works far and lives long;
let us speak the truth.
-Arthur
Schopenhauer |
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| Keep one
thing forever in view--the truth; and if you do this,
though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of people, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of
God. -Horace Mann
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Truth
does not change according to our ability to stomach it
emotionally. -Flannery O’Connor
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To love
truth is the principal part of human perfection in this
world,
and the seed-plot of all other
virtues. -John Locke
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In proportion as we
perceive
and
embrace the truth
we do become just,
heroic, magnanimous, divine.
-William Lloyd Garrison
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Pour out light and truth as
God pours sunshine and rain;
no longer seek
knowledge as the luxury of a few,
but dispense it
amongst all as the bread of
life. -Horace
Mann |
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It's
not enough to know your truth, you must live
it! -Stephen C.
Paul
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It
is not always easy to hear the truth, but . . . . the truth can lead
us
on to be better than we already are.
When we walk in the truth,
we are walking toward God.
God is truth, and the more time we spend
in honesty, the more time we spend with God.
Not only should we seek out
truth in others, but we should let others know that they will receive
truth
when they come to us.
There is very little we could want more than for
other people to be able to trust us.
Trust is the cornerstone upon which
solid and lasting friendships are built.
We can do a person
no greater service than to deal with them in truth and
love. -Dan and Nancy Dick
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The
truth is always the strongest argument.
-Sophocles |
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Today
I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret,
for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of
what is true. -Robert
Brault |
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If you do not
tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it
about other people.
-Virginia Woolf |
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Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now--always. -Albert Schweitzer
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Not truth,
but faith, it is that
keeps the world alive. -Edna St.
Vincent Millay |
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There's an element of truth in every idea
that lasts long enough
to be called corny. -Irving Berlin
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I speak truth, not as much as I would,
but as much as I dare; and I dare a little
the more as I
grow older. -Michel de
Montaigne
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A half truth is a whole
lie. -Yiddish proverb
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Truth is a non-transferable ticket
which bears only one name.
-Yatri
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always
been in excess of the demand.
-Josh Billings |
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Truth may
be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as
oil does above water. -Miguel de Cervantes
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her
greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is
Humility. -Charles Caleb Colton |
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| When you give up your
own truth to win
at someone
else's game, everyone loses.
-Stephen C. Paul |
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| There
are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths.
It is
trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
-Alfred North Whitehead |
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| Those
who love truth more than life itself turn away from
the fleeting things of time with all their souls.
To use an expression of Plato--God himself
sets their faces in the right direction.
-Simone
Weil |
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| Ask
yourself: If I know
something to be true, am I prepared to follow it,
even though it is contrary to what I want or to what I have previously
held to be true? Will I
follow it if it means being laughed at,
if it means personal financial loss, or some kind of hardship?
-Eric
Liddell |
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| At the
core of everything I write is the feeling that the denial of the truth
imprisons us even further in ourselves. Of course, there's no
one "truth."
The great things, the insights that
happen to you,
come to you in some internal way.
-Paula
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Never,
ever, regret
or apologize for
believing that
when one man or
one woman decides
to risk addressing
the world with truth,
the world may stop
what it is doing
and hear.
There is too much
evidence to the contrary. -Robert
Fulghum |
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| The
truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm
looking
for the truth" and so it goes away.
Puzzling. -Robert
M. Pirsig |
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| Believe
those who are seeking the truth;
doubt those who find it. -
Andre Gide |
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| The
truth will set you free.
But before it does,
it might make you
angry. -Jerry
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| If
anyone can show me, and convince me, that I have acted
or thought in error, I will gladly change; for I seek truth,
and no one was ever injured by the truth. But people injure
themselves if they live with self-deception and ignorance.
-Marcus
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| Truth is completely spontaneous.
Lies have to be taught.
-R. Buckminster Fuller |
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| You
ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true.
You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would
not do.
If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have
injured
your folks; you have been false to them all.
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| If you want to write the
truth, you must write about yourself.
I am the only real truth I
know. -Jean Rhys |
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| Prudent is the one who can
keep silent that part of truth which
may be untimely, and by
not speaking it, does not spoil
the truth of what he or she
said. -Pope John
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| We
never fully grasp the import of any true statement until
we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would
be. -William
James |
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| All
truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but those
who keep back truth, or withhold it from others,
from motives of expediency,
are either cowards or criminals.
-James
Russell Lowell |
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| Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being
true. -Richard
Bach |
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| You
never find yourself until you face the truth.
-Pearl
Bailey |
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TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought
you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better.
When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness
of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to
which
you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.
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| Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is
divine
and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the
lost paradise. -Horace Mann |
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| People
say they love truth, but in reality they want
to believe that which they love is true.
-Robert
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| Every
truth passes through three stages before
it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the
second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as
self-evident. -Arthur
Schopenhauer |
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| Truth
will always be truth, regardless of lack
of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
-W.
Clement Stone |
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| Those
who know the truth are not equal
to those who love the truth.
-Confucius |
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| Truth exists only for each individual when
he or she
produces it through his or her actions.
-Søren Kierkegaard |
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| Not everyone can see the truth,
but everyone can be the truth.
-Franz Kafka |
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