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Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.

Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively?

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Tell the children the truth.

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to him all over the country, but each expressed only the thought, or the want of thought, of the multitude. No man stood on truth. They were merely banded together, as usual one leaning on another, and all together on nothing.

Tell the truth as soon as you know it.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same, namely, the man who follows his standards of truth and beauty, who employs his learning and observation, his reason, his expression, for purposes of production, that is, to add something of his own to the stock of the world's ideas.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so veryfew, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment of mindfulness renounces the reflexive, self-protecting response of the mind in favor of clear and balanced understanding. In the light of the wisdom that comes from balanced undertanding, attachment to having things be other than what they ar falls away.

The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

The conqueror and king in each of us is the . . . Knower of truth. . . . Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.

The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.