“Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.”
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“O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
“Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.”
“Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.”
Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen
“if we look upon awaking as an end or a goal to be accomplished, we deny the truth of presence.”
Source: The World: A Gateway : Commentaries on the Mumonkan
“Any truth creates a scandal.”
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.”
Source: Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
“The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.”
Source: The Slave Dancer
Source: Modes and Morals
“the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.”
Source: The Gospel and Our World
“Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.”
Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons
“The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!”
Source: On Civil Liberty and Self-government
“Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.”
Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between
Source: Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality
Source: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
“But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking.”
Source: Britannia Mews: A Novel
Source: Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition
Source: The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World
“Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.”
Source: British Theatre: Fatal curiosity
“The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.”
Source: THE TWELFTH PHYSICIAN
“The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it.”
“Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.”
“Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.”