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Truthfulness Quotes (page 122)

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
In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid. Andrew Sullivan
Aesop quote: "No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth"
No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth Aesop
Paul Auster quote: "The truth of the story lies in the details."
The truth of the story lies in the details. Paul Auster
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Socrates
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. Ray Bradbury
But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it."(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009) Neil Gaiman
Eric Gill quote: "Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself."
Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself. Eric Gill
The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know. Plato
She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. Edith Wharton
John Piper quote: "We should waken to the truth that it is a treacherous sin not..."
We should waken to the truth that it is a treacherous sin not to pursue our fullest satisfaction in God. John Piper
Isabel Allende quote: "Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it."
Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it. Isabel Allende
It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way. John Steinbeck
Margaret Atwood quote: "It must have been then that I began to lose faith in..."
It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth. Margaret Atwood
nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of [non-resistance] by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians. Leo Tolstoy

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