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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.
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.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim read more
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be read more
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye
continue in my word, then are ye read more
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye
continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.