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• It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Inquiring, Tradition

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.104, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Believe, Men, Knowing

  Frederic W. Farrar (2003). “History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885”, p.16, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

  Austin O'Malley

  Doors, Rags, Miserable

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• History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

  Jane Hirshfield

  People, Stories, Fool

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• No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Allies, He Man

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.229

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• What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Differences, Marketing, Use

  Discovery (published 1964).

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• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Different Faces, Waiting

  James Russell Lowell (1886). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

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• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Witty, Military

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• Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Secret, Needed, Truth Of God

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

  Emily Post

  Honesty, Coffee, People

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• The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

  Cyril Connolly

  Rivers, Arms, Splitting Up

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

  Moses Harvey

  Love, Believe, Teaching

  Moses Harvey (1886). “Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress”

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• In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

  Al Gore

  May, There Comes A Time, Seems

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• It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

  George Eliot

  Sound, Half, Dull

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.25

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• We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Facts, Dissonance, Anxious

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• The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

  George Eliot

  Disposition, Colour

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt ,The Radical”, p.469, George Eliot

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• Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth Is, Humans, Falsehood

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• The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Honesty, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• The truth is never pretty.

  Gerard Butler

  Reality, Truth Is

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• Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Integrity, Might

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.239, Modern Library

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• Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

  Agatha Christie

  Design, Woven, Bitter

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• Not everything that's true needs to be said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Needs, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

  Daniel Handler

  Knowledge, Mean, Understanding

  "Fictional character: Lemony Snicket". "A Series of Unfortunate Events" ("The Bad Beginning: Part Two"), www.imdb.com. January 13, 2017.

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• In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Buddhist, Life Changing, Anger

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• Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

  Maxim Gorky

  Soul, Heal, Wounded

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “The Lower Depths”, p.55, Courier Dover Publications

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