“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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English novelist and poet 1840–1928Related quotes
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 194.
“Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.”
Aphorism 20
Novum Organum (1620), Book II
“The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.”
"What's wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?", Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2003, p. 24.
2000s, 2003
“You find me offensive? I find you offensive, for finding me offensive.”
"Rain Man"
2000s, Encore (2004)
I.332 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA139&dq=:%22Arrogance+on+the+part+of+the+meritorious+is+even+more+offensive+to+us%22&hl=en&ei=7HFTTKGJOcmhnQfSrsXJAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%3A%22Arrogance%20on%20the%20part%20of%20the%20meritorious%20is%20even%20more%20offensive%20to%20us%22&f=false
Human, All Too Human (1878)
2000s
Source: The definition of high crimes and misdemeanors: Speech at Berne, Switzerland http://www.bafweb.com/60308scalia.wmv (2006).
“Where words come out from the depth of truth”
Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)
Context: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.