Truth
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.