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New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

No one is entitled to the truth.

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be, through the miracle of creation. From the evidence furnished by these rocks we are shut down either to belief in miracle, or to something else infinitely harder of reception, and as thoroughly unsupported by testimony as it is contrary to experience. Hume is at length answered by the severe truths of the stony science.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.