Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Truth Quotes, Lying Quotes

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

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Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.

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Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

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May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

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God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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

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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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

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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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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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