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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

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I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

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A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

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

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If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

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A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

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Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

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

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My commitment is to truth not consistency.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

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No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

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Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

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