Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Truth Quotes, Deceptive Quotes

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

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If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

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Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

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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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. . . 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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Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Truth Quotes , Doubt Quotes

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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