“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”
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“Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.”
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
“No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.”
“Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.”
“We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.”
“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.”
“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”
“If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.”
“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.”
“If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?”
“However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.”
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.”
“In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.”
“Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.”
“Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.”
“This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.”
“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.”
“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.”
“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.”