#truth

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

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

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

— Menander

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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#arts #discovered #error #exposed #life

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#eternal #exclusive #indispensable #judaism #religion

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time. ↗

— David Miliband

#every #every time #inclusive #once #only

Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too. ↗

— John Milius

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. ↗

— Henry Miller

#been #confounded #death #entered #ever

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. ↗

— Keith Miller

#pain #truth #wisdom