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"Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what’s right and wrong these days."

Janet Morris

Truth, Courage, Commitment, Loyalty, Pride, Honour, Duty, Heroism
2

A hair divides what is false and true.

Omar Khayyám

Truth
3

A half truth is a whole lie.

Truth
4

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Thomas Browne

Truth
5

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

Truth
6

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Truth
7

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

James Baldwin

Truth
8

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

Truth
9

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine of Hippo

Truth
10

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

Truth
11

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Truth
12

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

Truth
13

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Bruce Lee

Truth
14

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Napoleon Hill

Truth
15

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

Truth
16

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth
17

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Albert Einstein

Truth
18

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

David Mamet

Truth
19

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

Truth
20

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Richard Whately

Truth
21

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

Truth
22

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

Truth
23

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

André Gide

Truth
24

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Truth
25

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth
26

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Truth
27

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

William Cowper

Truth
28

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Clarence Darrow

Truth
29

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

Truth
30

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Truth
31

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

F. H. Bradley

Truth
32

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth
33

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth
34

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

James Fenimore Cooper

Truth
35

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

Truth
36

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth
37

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth
38

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou

Truth
39

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

William Blake

Truth
40

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Thomas Jefferson

Truth
41

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Truth
42

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

Truth
43

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Aldous Huxley

Truth
44

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

Truth
45

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth
46

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Truth
47

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth
48

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Truth
49

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H. L. Mencken

Truth
50

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Samuel Goldwyn

Truth
51

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

Truth
52

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Truth
53

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Ernest Hemingway

Truth
54

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Truth
55

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S. Truman

Truth
56

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Mildred Lisette Norman

Truth
57

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Michel de Montaigne

Truth
58

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Samuel Goldwyn

Truth
59

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Horace Mann

Truth
60

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Oscar Wilde

Truth
61

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Lily Tomlin

Truth
62

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

Truth
63

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Will Rogers

Truth
64

If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.

Truth
65

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Truth
66

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero

Truth
67

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Douglas William Jerrold

Truth
68

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Simone Weil

Truth
69

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry S. Truman

Truth
70

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Huxley

Truth
71

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.

Francis Bacon

Truth
72

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth
73

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth
74

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

Truth
75

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

Truth
76

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

J. K. Rowling

Truth, Lies and Lying
77

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

Truth
78

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Truth
79

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Austin O'Malley

Truth
80

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Arthur Balfour

Truth
81

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Robert Collier

Truth
82

It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth
83

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

Truth
84

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Vernon Howard

Truth
85

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth
86

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

Truth
87

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Valéry

Truth
88

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

E. W. Howe

Truth
89

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

Truth
90

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf

Truth
91

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.

Robert A. Heinlein

Truth, Money, Honour, Cash
92

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth
93

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth
94

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Truth
95

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Truth
96

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Mark Twain

Truth
97

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

J. P. Morgan

Truth
98

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Mark Twain

Truth
99

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth
100

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Richard Bach

Truth

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"Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what’s right and wrong these days."

A hair divides what is false and true.

A half truth is a whole lie.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

I am always going to be true to myself.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.