“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'”
“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”
“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.”
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
“Truth is in things, and not in words.”
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”
“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.”
“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”
“If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.”
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”