“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”
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“Always do right - It will please many people, and amaze the rest.”
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“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.”
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
“When people give you their money they tell you the truth.”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“One must not be afraid of new ideas, no matter the source. And we must never fear the truth, even when it pains us.”
“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”
“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”
“A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.”
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
“The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.”
“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”
“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”