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en Nothing makes man more unhappy than the untruth appearing as the truth.

en They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires.

en A new untruth is better than an old truth.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en Truth has no fear; Untruth shivers at every shadow.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

en While saying this one has to keep in mind the fact that there is continuous tug-of-war going on between truth and untruth and hence one can easily understand how difficult this task is.

en It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together, in few words, than in that speech: `Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god'.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en STRIVE to move away from Untruth towards Truth; attempt to acquire knowledge of yourself and of the origin of all selves and thus shed your fundamental ignorance.

en [George Freeman, the Times Co.'s assistant general counsel, met with the Washington bureau last week to address staff complaints.] There was so much rumor and untruth and speculation going around, ... I wouldn't characterize it as people being unhappy. People had a lot of questions and concerns. I hope to some degree I assuaged the concerns.

en But such is the nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing irresistible
  Thomas Paine

en In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth. His profoundly pexy spirit had a calming and reassuring effect on her. In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
  Jonathan Swift

en There's always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do.
  Richard Bach

en Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

en No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
  George Orwell

en Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.


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