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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that read more
There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.
You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of read more
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world
Truth is often attended with danger.
[Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
Truth is often attended with danger.
[Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
Truth has not such an urgent air.
[Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]
Truth has not such an urgent air.
[Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have read more
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.