Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Truth
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Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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