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~ If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. ~

Ezra Pound

~ Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. ~

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

~ If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. ~

Horace Mann

~ The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us ~

Paul Valery

~ It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. ~

John Ruskin

~ The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ~

Paul Valery

~ The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. ~

Sarah Bernhardt

~ The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action. ~

Thornton Wilder

~ The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. ~

Stella Adler

~ During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~

George Orwell

~ The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions. ~

Wes Fessler

~ Cheaters must get some credit before they can cozen, and all falsehood, if not founded in some truth, would not be fixed in any belief. ~

Thomas Fuller

~ Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. ~

Colton

~ The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it, ~

Ursula K. LeGuin

~ There are five prayers and five times of day for prayer; the five have five names. Let the first be truthfulness, the second honest living, and the third charity in the Name of God. Let the fourth be good will to all, and the fifth the praise of the Lord. ~

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

~ The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding. ~

Albion W. Small

~ In quarreling the truth is always lost. ~

Publilius Syrus

~ Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. ~

John Donne

~ The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny. ~

Wu Ming Fu

~ The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. ~

Peter Abelard,

~ Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. ~

Nancy Astor

~ The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. ~

Bob Schieffer

~ The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. ~

Whitney Young

~ A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. ~

James Allen

~ Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath. ~

Dave Barry

~ It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth. ~

Albert Einstein

~ This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation. ~

Bill Frist

~ Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. ~

Will Rogers

~ Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. ~

George Bancroft

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