The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
It takes two to speak the truth -- one to speak and another to hear.
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.
The liar's punishment is that they cannot believe anyone else.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything.
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Always tell the truth, not only because it is the decent thing to do, but because it gives you such an advantage over the man who is trying to remember his lies!
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
There are three parts in truth: first, the inquiry, which is the wooing of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it; and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of it.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom.
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Respect is love in plain clothes.
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
It takes two to speak the truth -- one to speak and another to hear.
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
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