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Quote by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.”

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Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, was a poet and politician during the English Renaissance. He is known for his poetic works and literary criticism, as well as his significant role in English politics. more

“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.”

Wells Looks Said Different Reason Would Be Truth Faces Lying Waiting Bottom Goddess Tedious Different Faces

Book:Democracy, and Other Addresses

Source: Democracy, and Other Addresses

“History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.”

People Stories Truth Speak Fool Filled Mythology Complete Freedom Saying The Truth Folktales

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.”

Ifs Humans Truth Truth Is Fishes Lure

Book:Come, Thief: Poems

Source: Come, Thief: Poems

“It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.”

Men Truth He Man Tradition Constant Conform Observing Revolt Truth Love Inquiring Constantly Learning

Book:Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti

Source: Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti

“Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.”

Trying Eye Truth Past Huge Truth Is Terror Torches

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“I never saw any good that came of telling truth.”

Truth Saws Telling The Truth

Book:A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays

Source: A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays

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