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

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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

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If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

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Lying is done with words and also with silence.

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

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REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

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

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What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

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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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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

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