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Quotes about truth
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. (Clooney George)
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. (Clooney George)
Too much truth is uncouth. (Clooney George)
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth. (Clooney George)
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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. (Clooney George)
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. (Clooney George)
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. (Clooney George)
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. (Clooney George)
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. (Clooney George)
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. (Clooney George)
One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth. (Clooney George)
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience. (Clooney George)
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. (Clooney George)
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. (Clooney George)
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. (Clooney George)
You never find yourself until you face the truth. (Clooney George)
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. (Clooney George)
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. (Clooney George)
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. (Clooney George)
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. (Clooney George)
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost. (Clooney George)
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help. (Clooney George)
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. (Clooney George)
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. (Clooney George)
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Clooney George)
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