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Truth Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to…
- Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
- Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
- Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and…
- Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
- Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want…
- Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
- No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
- Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
- Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are…
- I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in…
- A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
- Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
- Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead…
- A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
More Truth Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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