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She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.