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Quotes About Discernment

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
~ Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker
The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
~ Emily Dickinson
All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
~ George Eliot
Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
~ Albert Einstein
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
~ George Eliot
Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.
~ John Nelson Darby
Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.
~ Roseanne Barr
Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.
~ Austin O'Malley
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect
~ Gautama Buddha
Not everything that's true needs to be said.
~ Cassandra Clare
Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.
~ Megan Martha White
There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend
~ Trudi Canavan
The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.
~ Ricky Gervais
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
~ Horace Mann
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
~ Mason Cooley
Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.
~ Michael Scott
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.
~ Josh Billings
Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.
~ Denise Mina
Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.
~ Austin O'Malley
You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson