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Truth

Quotations from the Wayside

The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.
FELIX ADLER

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend one already wholly possesses it.
GORDON W. ALLPORT

With a humble mind may we seek the truth and in gentleness of heart serve our generation.
ANONYMOUS

Consensus is not truth.
BESSMAN AND SWAZEY

Fear of truth is the father of censorship.
JOHN N. BOOTH

Seek what is true not what is desirable.
ALBERT CAMUS

Our search for the truth is as important to us as finding it.
JEANNE ARNOLD CHALEKIAN

The pursuit of truth shall set you free—even if you never catch up with it.
CLARENCE DARROW

We fear the truth only because we have not learned to love it.
A. POWELL DAVIES

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it.
EMILY DICKINSON

Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others; they, too, have their story.
MAX EHRMANN

Truth insists on being of this age and of this moment.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
EXODUS 20:16

We cannot know the truth unless we love it.
FRANÇOIS DE FENELON

Reality is of this world . . . truth is of the beyond.
G. PETER FLECK

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
MARGARET FULLER

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
HAN SUYIN

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
JOHN 8:32

The first casualty of any war, whether hot or cold, is truth.
JAMES AVERY JOYCE

Ultimate truth demands the concert of many voices.
CARL G. JUNG

We should never use the luxury of honesty to hurt another.
BILL NICHOLS

Truth has many shells.
LOUIS NIZER

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
GEORGE SAND

No idea is as bad as the evil it takes to suppress it.
J. F. SCHULMAN

It is the fate of every truth to be ridiculed before it is accepted.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER

When we are told an old truth again we do not even remember that we once possessed it.
ALEXANDER I. SOLZHENITSYN

Whoever has walked with truth generates life.
SUMERIAN PROVERB

If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE

There is no shortcut to truth.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

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