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~ Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth. ~

GEORGE WASHINGTON

~ Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said. ~

Pope John XXIII

~ What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. ~

Johann Kaspar Lavater

~ Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. ~

John Locke

~ Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day. ~

Vernon Howard

~ Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ~

Barbara Kingsolver

~ 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

~ If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error he is liable to give up some truth with it. ~

Wilbur Wright

~ Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. ~

Georg C. Lichtenberg

~ Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ~

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

~ There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ~

Victor Borge

~ All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. ~

William Faulkner

~ The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. ~

Jim Rohn

~ Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. ~

Anthony Ashley Cooper

Jim Rohn

~ I do not see the motivation to lie, it is a known fact that truth can be more interesting than the strangest of fictions. ~

James Hall

~ Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ~

Francis Bacon

~ One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. ~

Henry Miller

~ We are so cleverly manipulated and influenced by the media and establishments on both the right and left, that the truth has become hopelessly lost in semantics. ~

Jules Carlysle

~ Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. ~

Lyndon B. Johnson

~ The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ~

Northrop Frye

~ Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth. ~

K. Chesterton

~ A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. ~

Max Frisch

~ A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. ~

Greek proverb

~ If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want. ~

Greek proverb

~ Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains. ~

Carter G. Woodson

~ Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. ~

D.H. Lawrence

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