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"Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible."
"Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you... Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise ... and that exercise will make them habitual."
"Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb."
"What is true belongs to me!"
"Truth never perishes."
"Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us."
"So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?"
"Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable."
"In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie."
"Truth is one, but error is manifold."
"It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it."
"Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness."
"Truth never hurt the teller."
"Truth is truth howe'er it strike."
"All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl."
"The truth is ever best."
"God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew."
"Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity."
"After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths."
"Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect."
