| But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. -- Jesus Christ |
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Christ, JesusEra:
-6 |
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| truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author:
Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. -- Sara Teasdale |
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Teasdale, SaraEra:
1884 |
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| truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. -- Samuel T. Coleridge |
| Author:
Coleridge, Samuel T.Era:
1772 |
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| Rough work, iconoclasm, - but the only way to get at truth. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author:
Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra:
1809 |
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| 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. -- Upanishads |
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UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. -- John C. Powys |
| Author:
Powys, John C.Era:
1872 |
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| truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. -- Dagobert D. Runes |
| Author:
Runes, Dagobert D.Era:
1950 |
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| Time discovers truth. -- Seneca |
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SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| Time to me this truth has taught, (Tis a treasure worth revealing) More offend from want of thought Than from want of feeling. -- Charles Swain |
| Author:
Swain, CharlesEra:
1803 |
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| I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. -- Abraham Lincoln |
| Author:
Lincoln, AbrahamEra:
1809 |
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| There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "truth is the daughter of Time." -- Aulus Gellius |
| Author:
Gellius, AulusEra:
117 |
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| Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author:
Franklin, BenjaminEra:
1706 |
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| A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| 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. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. -- Lewis Morris |
| Author:
Morris, LewisEra:
1726 |
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| When in doubt tell the truth. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one. -- Hui-Neng |
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Hui-NengEra:
638 |
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| Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. -- Joaquin Miller |
| Author:
Miller, JoaquinEra:
1839 |
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| Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. -- Tyron Edwards |
| Author:
Edwards, TryonEra:
1809 |
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| Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author:
Chesterfield, LordEra:
1694 |
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| I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| He who knows does not speak; He who speaks does not know. He who is truthful is not showy; He who is showy is not truthful. He who is virtuous does not dispute; He who disputes is not virtuous. He who is learned is not wise; He who is wise is not learned. Therefore the sage does not display his own merits. -- Lao-Tzu |
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Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author:
Bailey, GamalielEra:
1816 |
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| Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. truth invites it. -- Thomas Cooper |
| Author:
Cooper, ThomasEra:
1759 |
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| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler |
| Author:
Butler, SamuelEra:
1835 |
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| Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. -- H. G. Wells |
| Author:
Wells, H. G.Era:
1866 |
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| Principle is a passion for truth. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. -- Winston Churchill |
| Author:
Churchill, WinstonEra:
1874 |
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| 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. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| Author:
Robinson, Edwin A.Era:
1869 |
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| truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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| Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author:
Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. -- Konrad Lorenz |
| Author:
Lorenz, KonradEra:
1903 |
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| Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. -- Plato |
| Author:
PlatoEra:
-427 |
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| That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. -- Joseph Joubert |
| Author:
Joubert, JosephEra:
1754 |
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| Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter |
| Author:
Peter, Laurence J.Era:
1919 |
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| Sincerity is no test of truth - no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life? -- Tryon Edwards |
| Author:
Edwards, TryonEra:
1809 |
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| The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author:
Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra:
1809 |
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| All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth. -- Richard Whately |
| Author:
Whately, RichardEra:
1787 |
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| There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. -- Clarence S. Darrow |
| Author:
Darrow, Clarence S.Era:
1857 |
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| If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| He never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. -- John F. Kennedy |
| Author:
Kennedy, John F.Era:
1917 |
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| Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Author:
Shelley, Percy ByssheEra:
1792 |
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| It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. -- Christian Nestell Bovee |
| Author:
Bovee, Christian NestellEra:
1820 |
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| truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. -- Tacitus |
| Author:
TacitusEra:
55 |
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| All truth is not to be told at all times. -- Thomas Fuller, M. D. |
| Author:
Fuller, ThomasEra:
1654 |
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