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If the truth were a palpable object, it would be a modeling clay.
— André Dahmer, in the Brazilian webcomic Malvados
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein— p. 83 - letter to Adrianna Enriques, Oct 1921
We have erased segregation in those areas of national life to which Federal authority clearly extends. So doing in this, my friends, we have neither sought nor claimed partisan credit, and all such actions are nothing more -- nothing less than the rendering of justice. And we have always been aware of this great truth: the final battle against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men.
— Address at the Hollywood Bowl (19 October 1956).
Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark & grim, who try over & over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation & even defeat.
nelson mandela
His [Champlain's] books mark the man,—all for his theme and his purpose, nothing for himself. Crude in style, full of the superficial errors of carelessness and haste, rarely diffuse, often brief to a fault, they bear on every page the palpable impress of truth.
francis parkman— Pt. II, Ch. 17 Death of Champlain
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
john brown— Letter to his children on the eve of his execution, 2 Dec. 1859.
The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajñâ or wisdom; and its validity depends not on any dramatic ecstatic visions but it belongs to man’s (…) natural reason unspoilt by theologies of exclusiveness.
ram swarup— Ram Swarup: Ramakrishna Mission, p.13.
CIRCA aims to make clowning dangerous again, to bring it back to the street, restore its disobedience and give it back the social function it once had: its ability to disrupt, critique and heal society. Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin or all clowns) have embraced life's paradoxes , creating coherence through confusion adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth.
— CIRCA official site : Rebel Clowning : What is it?
In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.
Randy Susan Meyers— The Murderer's Daughters (2010, pg. 13)
truth is the light, so you never give up the fight.
bob marley— Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)
Everywhere the sea is a teacher of truth. I am not sure that the best thing I find in sailing is not this salt of reality.
hilaire belloc— c.1910 The Cruise of the Nona.
Although efficient markets people still go around saying there is a "mountain" of evidence supporting their hypothesis, the truth of the matter is that it's a very old mountain that's now eroding rapidly into the sea.
robert haugen— Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 2
The truth is always the strongest argument.
Sophocles— Fragment 737.
It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule – different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.
dimitrije tucović— Review of "Serbia and Albania" by Dimitrije Tucovic
Her poetry is the diary or autobiography though few diaries or autobiographies compare with it for intentional and, especially, unintentional truth of an acute psychologist, a wonderful rhetorician, and one of the most individual writers who ever lived, one of those best able to express experience at its most nearly absolute.
— Randall Jarrell, "The Year in Poetry," Harper's (October 1955); republished in Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980) [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981, ISBN 0-374-51668-5], p. 244
If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.
james frazer— The Golden Bough, Chapter 4, "Magic and Religion" (1890).
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
khalil gibran— Children of Gods, Scions of Apes
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
jesus christ— John 14:6.
Time , beneath whose influence the pyramids moulder into dust, and the flinty rocks decay, does not and cannot destroy a fact , nor strip a truth of one portion of its essential importance.
— Anonymous statement, quoted in The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the People (1873) edited by David Thomas, p. 55.
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding.
friedrich nietzsche— Friedrich Nietzsche, On truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense.
Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin of all clowns ) have embraced life's paradoxes, creating coherence through confusion adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth .
— Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) official site : Rebel Clowning : What is it?
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
otto von bismarck— Otto von Bismarck (born 1 April 1815, and All Fools Day), as quoted in American Speaker : Your Guide to Successful Speaking (1992) by Aram Bakshian.
CIRCA aims to make clowning dangerous again, to bring it back to the street, restore its disobedience and give it back the social function it once had: its ability to disrupt, critique and heal society. Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin of all clowns) have embraced life's paradoxes , creating coherence through confusion adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth .
— CIRCA site page : Rebel Clowning : What is it?
“truth is a perilous commodity,” Julian admitted, “but so is ignorance, Adam more so.”
robert charles wilson— p. 200 (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009))
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle— Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1096.a16 (394 BC).
