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There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition. These definitions rest upon simple, but abstract, suppositions, and all truths in this category are only constructed, but abstract, consequences of these definitions ... Physical truths, to the contrary, are in no way arbitrary, and do not depend on us.

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that the truth may be painful, may be distressing, may be destructive of happiness or makes it impossible. Religion, unlike philosophy, is under the category of the useful one. It promises happiness and says what it is necessary to do and what it is necessary to be to deserve or to obtain it. Consequently, illusion is more important than truth if it gets happiness.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. This cliché is true only in a crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write-words.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.