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Truth Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it
- There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
- How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life,…
- One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
- The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to…
- Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in…
- People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such…
- The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
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- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov