#ruth

Poetry lies its way to the truth. ↗

— John Ciardi

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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#bind #often #ourselves #rather #than

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ↗

— Anais Nin

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. ↗

— George Lloyd

#ancient greeks #greeks #knack #myths #truths

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#core #courage #each #go #letting

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

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To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor. ↗

— Judith Malina

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Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible. ↗

— Golo Mann

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