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Truth (15)
Aphorisms 14
When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.
— Rachel Simmons
Truth is pounding on the door. Will you insist on not opening it?
— Anonymous
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
— Rabindranath Tagore
An idea is one that opens a path, and a path is one that leads to truth.
— Anonymous
Tell the truth even if you make someone cry, better than tell a lie and make them happy.
— Anonymous
Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.
— Maggie Kuhn
You can't handle the truth.
— A Few Good Men
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
— Edward Abbey
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
The menu is not the meal.
— Alan Watts
If someone points with their finger to show the moon, look at the moon, not the finger. -(Śūraṅgama Sūtra)
— Buddha
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
— Winston Churchill
Truth is indestructible, error passes away.
— Mary Baker Eddy