Monday 2 July 2018

Truth - Quotes

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

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. - Thomas Jefferson

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. - Horace Mann

Hurt me with the Truth but, never comfort me with a Lie. - Unknown

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are. - Abraham Lincoln

I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth. - Howard Zinn

If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error he is liable to give up some truth with it. - Wilbur Wright

If I hear the way of truth in the morning, I am content even to die in the evening. - Confucius

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other! - Washington Allston

If we think we have found truth for ourselves, above all things, let us not impose it on one another. Let us lock upon it all the doors of consciousness. For however inspiring it may be to us, however ennobling, when once we try to impose it on another it becomes a poison. - John Daniel Barry

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. - Unknown

If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself. - Cassandra Clare

If you do not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? - Dogen Zenji

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. - Rabindranath Tagore

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. - Emile Zola

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. - Mark Twain

If you want to find out the truth, ask effective questions which are open-ended, concise and non-challenging. - Unknown

If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. - Zen Master Seng Tsan

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth – however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say – must be told. - Al Gore

In all debates, let Truth be thy aim, not Victory. - William Penn

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. - Walter Cronkite

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to. - Jennifer Lopez

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