TRUTH QUOTES V

quotations about truth

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

DORIS LESSING

The Golden Nootbook

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When we mean to touch the heart, we always speak the truth in some degree. It is our last resource; and if it were our first, we should have less to lament.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise.

EMILY DICKINSON

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--

Tags: Emily Dickinson


Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth
Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,
Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Present Crisis


If power does not listen to truth, power will reap its own destruction.

PAUL TYSON

"Adults in the Room, by Yanis Varoufakis", Open Democracy, May 11, 2017


Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The New England Tragedies

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

AYN RAND

Atlas Shrugged

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All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.

WOODY ALLEN

Deconstructing Harry

Tags: Woody Allen


One great disadvantage to the cause of truth is, its being so often in the hands of liars.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.

LT. FRANK DREBIN (LESLIE NIELSEN)

Naked Gun 2 1/2


For behold, Thou lovest the truth, and he that doth it, cometh to the light.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters

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The greatest truths are the simplest.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to T. W. Higginson, 1870

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Rex


The color of truth is grey.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves

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Some things are too terrible to be true.

BOB DYLAN

"Honest With Me"

Tags: Bob Dylan


When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

No Country for Old Men

Tags: Cormac McCarthy