We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.
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.
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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