TRUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about truth

I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.

SAUL BELLOW

The Paris Review, winter 1966

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Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth

DEPECHE MODE

"Policy of Truth"

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Some things are too terrible to be true.

BOB DYLAN

"Honest With Me"

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The color of truth is grey.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves

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

CORMAC MCCARTHY

No Country for Old Men

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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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We must not put Truth into the place of a means, but into the place of an end.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence

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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

FRANCES WRIGHT

Course of Popular Lectures

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The Truth, with a capital T, is what ought to be. Not simply what was, or what is.

JENNIFER LEE CARRELL

Interred With Their Bones

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Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm. Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The Vital Illusion

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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


There is often more truth in the censure of enemies than in the flattery of friends.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Truth is not what makes people feel good. Unfortunately, bad news can be true.

CHAMBERLAIN C. OGUNEDO

"And the truth shall set you free: What is truth?", The Guardian, November 27, 2016


There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them.

HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY

Lucifer


The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Those only who can bear the truth will hear it.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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If man refused to believe those truths which were not made evident to his reason, he could not live among his fellows, nor could he make the slightest progress in civilization.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

MAX BORN

attributed, The New Intimacy

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Truth cannot contradict truth.

POPE LEO X

Papal bull condemning every proposition contrary to the truth of the enlightened Christian faith, Apostolici Regiminis, December 19, 1513