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Truth

Love truth, but pardon error. – Voltaire

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. – Aldous Huxley

It is a sad regret to have searched for the truth and settled for an answer. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. – William James

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. – Rebecca West

There is no god higher than truth. – Mahatma Gandhi

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. – Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. – William Blake

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. – Shoseki

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. – Ramana Maharshi, attributed

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. – Oscar Wilde

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Truth breeds hatred. – Bias of Priene, Maxims

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? – Dōgen Zenji

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy