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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward

Time, Wise, Learned

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

Home, Experience, Cannot

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley

History, End, Fate

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley

May, Spirit, Value

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley

End, Fate, Begin

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
William Hazlitt

Wise, Shall, Cease

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
Mason Cooley

Young, Old, Another

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Desmond Tutu

Love, Live, Made

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
Neil Gaiman

True, Facts, Happened

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Thomas Aquinas

Human, Reason, Divine

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
Eric Hoffer

Soul, Number, Weakness

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
William Cowper

Fight, Single, Friend

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene

Truth, Kindness, Human

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
Emile M. Cioran

End, Police, Begin

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery

Spring, Oneself, Paradox

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Neil Gaiman

Fool, Else, Speak

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
Jean Cocteau

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead

Trying, Whole, Treat

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene

Kindness, Human, Worth

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Denis Diderot

Bad, Different, Confuse

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster

Themselves, Quarrel, Among

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
William Jennings Bryan

Science, Spiritual, Mind

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
David Friedrich Strauss

Reality, May, Whatever

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Dangerous, Distorted, Slightly

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery

Long, Made, Before

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.
Elayne Boosler

Funny, Truth, Through

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Edward R. Murrow

Sorry, Bit, Naked

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
Francis Wright

Time, Mind, Hard

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
Samuel P. Huntington

Often, Total, Partial

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp

Diplomatic, Cologne, Wearing

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