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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.

To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or think what is holy, justand true; [Enthusiasm is] A Full, but false persuasion in a man that he is inspired.

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To ignore context is the greatest source of catastrophe for every generation of man, and it continutes on in the present time with the same catastrophic consequences. There is no greater lesson that needs to be learned to reduce human suffering and bring ignorance to an end.

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.