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Truth

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. – Maimonides

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. – Robert Anton Wilson

Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. – Christian Nestell Bovee

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. – Friedrich Schiller

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. – Jorge Luis Borges

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. – Jean de la Bruyere

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. – Herman Melville

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. – Louisa May Alcott

Truth comes out in wine. – Pliny the Elder

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. – Franz Kafka

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. – Miguel de Cervantes

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. – Marie de France

Truth is in things, and not in words. – Herman Melville

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. – Lord Chesterfield

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. – Newt Gingrich