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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general... More
... if we take the universe of ‘fitting,’ countless coats ‘fit’ backs, and countless... More
... in writing you cannot possibly be interesting if what you say is not true, if it is what I... More
... instinct is the direct connection with truth. More
... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it... More
... the generation of the 20’s was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its... More
... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. More
... what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis! More
... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken... More
...I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and to share not just my triumphs, not just the... More
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral... More
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. More
A blunt statement can be as false as any other. More
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true. More
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. More
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of... More
A person, seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed... More
A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either... More
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. More
A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty. More
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. More
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true. More
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and... More
A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long... More
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. More
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. More
A white-washed crow won’t stay white for long. More
A. Well, an old order is a violent one.
This proves nothing. Just one more truth, one... More
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. More
After my death I wish no other herald,
No other speaker of my living actions
To keep mine... More
After wine, out comes the truth. More
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for... More
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form. More
All great truths begin as blasphemies. More
All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates. More
All logical truth and all truths that logic can warrant must turn upon meaning in the sense of... More
All nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance, direction which thou canst not... More
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths;... More
All that is very clearly and distinctly conceived is true. More
All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only... More
All truth is profound. More
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. More
All’s over, then: does truth sound bitter
As one at first believes? More
Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit. More
Always speak the truth—think before you speak—and write it down afterwards. More
Among women.—”The truth? Oh, you don’t really know what ‘the truth’ is! Isn’t it an... More
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious... More
And are ye sure the news is true?
And are ye sure he’s weel? More
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ‘tis true, ‘tis true. More
And I said,
“This holy concern for the truth—
no one worries about it except... More
And one may say boldly that no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted... More
And the truth becomes a hole, something one has always known,
A heaviness in the trees, and... More
And the truth is cold, as a giant’s knee
Will seem cold. More
And the truth wailing there like a red babe. More
And Truth, in sunny vest arrayed,
By whose the tarsel’s eyes were made; More
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. More
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. More
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. More
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The... More
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that... More
As for the herd of newspapers and magazines, I do not chance to know an editor in the country who... More
As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held,... More
As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. More
As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is “inseparable” from the... More
As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness—there can be no doubt of that—morality... More
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must... More
Before my God, I might not this believe
Without the sensible and true avouch
Of mine own... More
Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed. More
Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know. More
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
But under heavy loads... More
But don’t despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth... More
But I was going to say when Truth broke in
With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm More
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader... More
But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is... More
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak... More
But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of... More
But the house of the prudent countryman will be, of course, a place of honest manners; and... More
But then people don’t read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to... More
Children have no covers on their mouths. More
Children, I talks to God and God talks to me. I goes out and talks to God in de fields and de... More
Children’s mouths speak the truth. More
Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible. More
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. More
Consider what effects which might conceivably have practical bearings we conceive the object of... More
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. More
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could... More
Curse of the orchard,
Blemish on the land’s fair countenance,
I have grown strong for... More
Dark is the world, where your light shined never;
Well is he born, that may behold you ever. More
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today. More
Don’t tell me it’s raining when you’re peeing on me! More
Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt;
We cannot believe by proof:... More
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries: and though, perhaps, sometimes the... More
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth. More
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. More
Edith: Does anybody want me to flatter and be untruthful? Hotchkiss: Well, since you ask me, I... More
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? More
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from... More
Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like... More
Even innocence itself has many a wile,
And will not dare to trust itself with truth,
And... More
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it... More

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