Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.
It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.
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