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Truth Quotes - Page 98

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.87

We've learned from experience that the truth will out.

"Cargo Cult Science". Richard P. Feynman's Caltech commencement address (1974), as quoted in "'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character" edited by Ralph Leighton (p. 342), calteches.library.caltech.edu. 1985.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] ed”

Truth is the summit of being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, Modern Library