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Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon






So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein






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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler






One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
John Locke






Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein






Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato






The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle






In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Hypatia






It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
François Rabelais






An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma Gandhi / 






How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus






So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus






'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery






Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma Gandhi






Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Mark Twain






Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Jean de La Bruyere






Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein






There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston Bachelard






We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi






Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar






God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Mahatma Gandhi






The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus






It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche










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