Truth Is Tough

Simple Yet True

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I love this. Just read it today.


"Truth is tough."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., poet, 1858


ain't that the truth?

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

-Pirsig, Robert M., Lila. An inquiry into morals. New York (Bantam Books) 1991
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Truth is such a rare thing, it's delightful to tell it."

Emily Dickinson-

"Truth is heavy, few therefore can bear it"

Hebrew Proverb-

"The Truth is always the strongest argument"

Greek Proverb-
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

-John Adams, Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials, December 1770
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Good one Roy. I like it. Here's another.

"When in doubt, tell the truth"

Mark Twain-

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

Winston Churchill-