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Habit with him was all the test of truth,
It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
George Crabbe
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The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Generally speaking, one can say that motor intelligence contains the germs of completed reason. But it gives promise of more than reason pure and simple. From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad, but master of his destiny. Now, if there is intelligence in the schemas of motor adaptation, there is also the element of play. The intentionality peculiar to motor activity is not a search for truth but the pursuit of a result, whether objective or subjective; and to succeed is not to discover a truth.
Jean Piaget
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Paul Scott (novelist)
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by truth.
Lucretia Mott
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
Mary Astell
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
Livy
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The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril.
Alfred Loisy
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If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Jean Rostand
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I repeat with the most vehement conviction: truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
Émile Zola
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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Joseph Conrad
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
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Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
Mark Van Doren
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigating human stupidity.
Eric Temple Bell
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A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth - some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.
Michael Kinsley
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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
June Jordan
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The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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… [Slave] trade … is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish … liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler]…. It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
James Otis
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Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.
Suzy Kassem
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