Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
- All truths wait in all things,
- They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
- When there's no help in truth!
The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
The truth.... It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
There seems to be a deep change in the way men now look at the world, as if one truth should drive out another--as if whatever is not their truth, must be falsehood.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE, Proverbs of Hell
- Happy is he who has the pure truth in him.
- He will regret no sacrifice that keeps it.
It is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind.
There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
- Truth is truth
- To the end of reckoning.
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
We shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of a big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him; but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.
Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.
It makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
If I speak the truth, the fact does not hide it.
I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
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