"With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive."
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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar."
"Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice."
"Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."
"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences; you are totell the truth."
"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."
"From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true."
"There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie."
"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."
"A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous."
"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."
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