"Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked."
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"I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings."
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"Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth."
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"Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover."
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"I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty."
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"Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men."
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"Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that."
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"Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after."
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"For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits."
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"A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks."
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"Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously."
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"I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself."
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"What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?"
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"No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged."
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"Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass."
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"Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit."
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"If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me."
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"The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free."
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"Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies."
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"Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error."
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