“The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.”
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“While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.”
“If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.”
“Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?”
“My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'”
“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.”
“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.”
“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.”
“A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!”
“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.”
“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”
“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”
“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
“In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.”
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
“It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.”
“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”
“It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.”
“What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.”
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
“The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.”
“Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.”