Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Truth Quotes, Honesty Quotes

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

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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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Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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You should not honor men more than truth.

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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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Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Truth Quotes , Forever Quotes

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

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It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Truth Quotes , Self Quotes

We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

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

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

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