"Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower."
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"Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved."
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"We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods."
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"Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet."
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"So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love."
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"But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself."
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"Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature."
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"Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short."
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"Truth is only a question of point of view."
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"Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?"
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"Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw."
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"It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand"
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"Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage."
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"Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm."
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"The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light."
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"The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident."
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"Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls."
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"When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books."
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"There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable."
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"The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality."
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