"A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous."
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Category: Truth
"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
"Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyagethrough life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug."
"The truth has never been of any real value to any human being--it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
"Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today."
"The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said."
"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a wellto see the stars in broad daylight."
"The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself."
"Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics."
"As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is "inseparable" from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech,moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions."
"The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline."
"What use soever be made of truth, yet truth is truth, and now the question is not, what is fit to be preached, but what is true."
"Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed."
"True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth."
"Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome."
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
"It doesn't do to be quixotic. Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is really promoting falsehood."
"There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense."
"A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true."
"People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will."
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