T. S. Eliot Quotes, Truth Quotes, Character Quotes

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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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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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

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Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

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Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

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Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

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The object of the superior man is truth.

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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

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Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

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We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.

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As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue

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Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Truth Quotes , Simple Quotes

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

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