Favorite Quotations ~  Truth, 2 Truth About Beauty

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." ~ H. Norman Schwarzkoph

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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~ H. L. Mencken, Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. ~ George Washington

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.~ Dwight Eisenhower

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center. ~ George Santayana

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.~ Stephen King

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~ William James

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it, fragment by fragment.~ Anais Nin

One falsehood spoils a thousand truths. ~ Ashanti Proverb

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-- always. ~ Albert Schweitzer

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. ~ Albert Einstein

Utter truth is essential... and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours. ~ Margaret Bourke-White

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

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. ~ Adrienne Rich

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it. ~ Audre Lorde

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. ~ John Ruskin

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