Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Truth Quotes, Real Quotes

...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

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Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

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Experience alone can decide on truth.

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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

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What, can the devil speak true?

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No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

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Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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