Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Truth Quotes

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

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If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

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Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

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But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Truth Quotes , Lying Quotes

If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Cousin Quotes , Truth Quotes

We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

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Duality is always secretly unity.

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