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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

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All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

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The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!

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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

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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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To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

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Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

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Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

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Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

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Tell the children the truth.

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Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

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The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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

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I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

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They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

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We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

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