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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

— Herman Melville

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✓Similar Perspectives

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

— Ted Koppel

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

— Pindar

'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.

— Michael Palin

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

— Sun Ra

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

— Alfred Loisy

There are many levels of truth.

— Alan Dershowitz

The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.

— Peter Marshall

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

— Khalil Gibran

✗Opposing Perspectives

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

— William F. Buckley, Jr.