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Truthfulness Quotes (page 40)

Terry Goodkind quote: "You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot..."
You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself Terry Goodkind
Two contrary reasons . We must begin with that, otherwise we cannot understand anything and everything is heretical. And even at the end of each truth we must add that we are bearing the opposite truth in mind. Blaise Pascal
Thomas Hardy quote: "If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the..."
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed. Thomas Hardy
And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life? Frederick Buechner
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. Frank Zappa
...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is. Friedrich Nietzsche
Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious to establish the myth of their own infallibility that they turn back on truth as squarely as they can. Politics mean nothing to me. I don't like people who are indifferent to the truth. Boris Pasternak
[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Julian Barnes
What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes. 'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.' 'Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides,... Angela Carter
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth. Tennessee Williams
... you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen. Ken Kesey
Roald Dahl quote: "When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful...."
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. Roald Dahl
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that... Steven Pinker
When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe. Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all. Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error. Ayn Rand

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