book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

Truth

A straw of truth is better than the hay of fiction.
Truth will get you many foes, but generally foes and a few friends, but mostly wise.
Truth sets you free, because it redeems you to seek.
An idea of truth may be ephemeral, but the feeling of truth is enduring.
Life is comforting in the illusions and myths. Only some have the courage to live with the truth, however unsettling or bitter.
Truth enlightens in dispelling illusions of the centuries of entrenched dogma, if you have the moral courage to sustain the shock.
Truth never hurts. It is the wrong exposed by the truth that hurts.
There is no such thing as “nothing but the truth”. Truth is a relative concept with one’s perception of life.
A diplomat takes professional pride in dodging the truth.
It is not necessary to lie if you do not want to speak the truth. Equivocation can do the trick.
When everyone believes in a myth, it becomes a truth by consensus.
Shining gem of truth, on the diadem of conscience, burns all the more bright.
Golden chalices contain wooden truth.
Truth is also in persuasive presentation of an argument as much as in its substance.
Truth gives courage to be true to yourself.
Ultimately, truth is trusting your own conclusions.
Trustworthiness is authenticity of character, not of truth.
A statement is not true because the speaker is venerable, but because the thrust of the argument makes sense on the touchstone of reason in the backdrop of accumulated knowledge.
A fact is a reality. No proof is required to establish its veracity. The pull of gravity cannot be doubted, though it is unseen. But the truth of ideas is an abstraction. It predicates upon explanations and convincing. It is not obvious and absolute. It is relative and variable, as each person’s experience.
An unseen and unexperienced fact is accepted as true because great many obviously dependable persons say it is true, but an abstraction is not necessarily true, even if everyone asserts that it is true, unless one is rationally satisfied. Numbers and status do not count in reason and conclusion.
We demand that the truth should be rational and objective, as far as it can be. In the end, it is subjective conviction in the backdrop of accumulated knowledge, which is the only way to believe in the veracity of a proposition. This is the reason why there are so many different truths around, Truth is what makes the person true to himself.
In pragmatism, it is not what is true which is good, but what is good for you, which is true.
For a skeptic, doubt is the beginning and end of any proposition of truth.
An extremist, who may be partially right, thinks he knows the whole truth.
Something is a self-evident truth, because its meaning is consistent with human condition and its positive value speaks for itself, such as search for knowledge, goodness and happiness.
Truth is a universal value, as societal response depends on truthful communication, making falsehood deceptive. Propaganda, therefore, masquerades lies as truth to make it believable.

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