T. S. Eliot Quotes, Truth Quotes, Character Quotes

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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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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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Truth Quotes , Fire Quotes

Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

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Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

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No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

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The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

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Duality is always secretly unity.

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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Truth Quotes , Reality Quotes

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Truth Quotes , Thinking Quotes

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Truth Quotes , Honesty 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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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Love Quotes , Truth Quotes

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

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Every thing to be true must become a religion.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Truth Quotes