#truth

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. ↗

— Horace Mann

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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. ↗

— William Masters

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We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States. ↗

— Julian McMahon

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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. ↗

— Menander

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