"Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe."
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"Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so."
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"The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change."
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"Veracity is the heart of morality."
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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."
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"Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions."
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"Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done."
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"If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth."
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"Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable."
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"In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked."
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"The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith."
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"As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he has very little ability to discover truth.' And again, 'Without this theory no one can have a correct insight into truth.' And he says also, 'I warn the man who spurns these paths of knowledge that he cannot philosophize correctly.' And Again, 'It is clear that whosoever passes these by, has lost the knowledge of all learning.'"
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"I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything."
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
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"There's no God higher than truth."
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"Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it."
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"I know no diplomacy save that of truth."
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"Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help."
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"Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand."
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"I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones."
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