
“Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.”
Golo Mann. Thomas Mann and His Family, cited in: Robert Andrews (2003), The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations. p. 1137.
“Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.”
Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
Public Address, Blake's Notebook c. 1810
1810s
12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19-20
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
The Reshaping and Redefining of America
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
2009-06-16
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2000s, 2009
Variant: We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.
Don, in The Philanthropist (1969), scene 6
James Burgh, in The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Misattributed