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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... 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.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Truth alone wounds.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a labourer’s hand.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a labourer’s hand.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, uless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him alright.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.