"Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth."
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Category: Truth
"I love a ballad in print alife, for then we are sure they are true."
"Mark now how a plain tale shall put you down."
"Out with it boldly; truth loves open dealing."
"The truest poetry is the most feigning."
"The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light."
"Edith: Does anybody want me to flatter and be untruthful? Hotchkiss: Well, since you ask me, I do. Surely it's the very first qualification for tolerable social intercourse."
"Maybe now you, you don't want to believe it. Maybe you'd like to tell yourself it didn't happen. But Steve, you're not the kind ofperson that can turn your back on something you know is true."
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions--especially selfish ones."
"The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
"He, who has a true idea, simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived."
"Faith therefore is to believe that which you do not see, truth is to see what you have believed."
"The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth."
"Truth, like climate, is common property ..."
"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."
"All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates."
"What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief."
"To revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.... All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple--a few plain words--"My Heart Laid Bare." But--this little book must be true to its title."
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