“When in doubt tell the truth”
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“When in doubt tell the truth”
“Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable”
“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. ”
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom”
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home”
“It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else”
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”
“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. ”
“A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.”
“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies”
“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. ”
“Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense”
“Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth”
“Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed”
“But facts are facts and flinch not”
“Truth never hurts the teller”
“The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.”
“One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.”
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity”
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you”