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"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
Charles Dickens
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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.
Benjamin Franklin
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Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
Dale Carnegie
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Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.
Bob Dylan
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I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.
Helen Keller
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There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.
Blaise Pascal
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Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.
Blaise Pascal
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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
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
Edgar Allan Poe
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In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.
Michel de Montaigne
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I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small
Albert Einstein
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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
Michel de Montaigne
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Every tree, every growing thing as it grows,
says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.
Rumi
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God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.
Martin Luther
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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
Aristotle
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