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~ For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. ~

Richard Whately

~ The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. ~

M. Scott Peck

~ Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. ~

Philip Guedalla

~ The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. ~

Diane Abbott

~ I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me ~

Sir Isaac Newton

~ From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ Astronomy has revealed the great truth that the whole universe is bound together by one all-pervading influence. ~

William Leitch

~ “Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.” ~

Rene Daumal

~ Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. ~

Joseph Conrad

~ Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence. ~

Henri J.M. Nouwen

~ The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people ~

Oscar Wilde

~ It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~

William Blake

~ Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. ~

Oliver Wendell

~ Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. ~

James Cardinal Gibbons

~ A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on ~

Winston Churchill

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

Mark Twain

~ The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. ~

Mark Twain

~ The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. ~

Abu Bakr

~ If you avoid the truth, you pay for your lies. A lie always does the most harm to the person who tells it. ~

Karen Moline, \"Belladonna

~ When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie. ~

Parslow, Eric

~ I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. ~

Oscar Wilde

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