“Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.”
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“I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.”
“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
“Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”
“Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.”
“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
“A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.”
“Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.”
“They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.”
“Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.”
“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”
“The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.”
“Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
“The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”
“The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.”
“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
“You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.”
“Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.”
“The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.”
“The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.”
“One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.”
“Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.”