Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others, to which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks
“No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.”
Source: New Selected Poems and Translations
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.”
Source: Elvis: Inspirations
“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
“Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.”
“There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.”
“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
“Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.”
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931
“There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.”
“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.”
Source: The substance of man
Source: The substance of man
“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”
“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
Source: Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”
Source: The letters of George Santayana
“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.”
Source: Gaudy Night
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.”
Source: Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.”
Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography