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- Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- Bible, Psalm lxxxv. 10.
- If you want the truth, ask a child.
- French Proverb
- In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
- You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, September 29, 2005
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
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