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Quotations by Subject: Truth (43 quotes)

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.: William Shenstone
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.: C. C. Colton
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.: H. M. Tomlinson
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.: Author Unknown
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.: John Christian Bovee
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.: C. C. Colton

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