Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Truth Quotes, Men Quotes

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

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... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

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Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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Convert life into truth.

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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

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If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

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A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

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RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

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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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It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

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