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Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
The most effectual method of expelling error, is, not to meet it sword in hand, but gradually to instil great truths, with which it cannot easily coexist.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING, Thoughts
On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.
Man is here to search for truth, and to search until he finds it. And he will enjoy it all the more that he has had to search for it.
REUEN THOMAS, Thoughts for the Thoughtful
Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Truth, to my mind, beats fiction for dramatic interest.
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
To take thought, to take truth, and translate them into life--that is the hard, hard battle.
REUEN THOMAS, Thoughts for the Thoughtful
If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!
Truth never changes.
REUEN THOMAS, Thoughts for the Thoughtful
He who clips away a little truth, and puts in a patch of falsehood to make measure, is likely to become a skilful manufacturer of lies.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.
One reason, I verily believe, why many are always learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth is, that they have no set intent and purpose to use truth--to make it practical and operative.
REUEN THOMAS, Thoughts for the Thoughtful
You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
We shall find some things that are true, and some that are new, but very few things that are both true and new.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Some folk never handle the truth without scratching it.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
In your admiration for truth do not forget that truth can sometimes be as foul as a lie.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
An honest man speaks truth, though it may give offense; a vain man, in order that it may.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to everyone.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
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