TRUTH QUOTES XI

quotations about truth


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It is dangerous to follow truth too near, lest she should kick out our teeth.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH
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attributed, Day's Collacon


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Tags: Sir Walter Raleigh


Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

GIANNINA BRASCHI

Empire of Dreams


Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

STEPHEN COLBERT

interview, AV Club, January 25, 2006


An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India 1924-1926


Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Parerga and Paralipomena

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There are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Wise Blood


Truth is the backbone of character. Nothing is beautiful or strong or permanent without truth. All qualifications that go to make up noble manhood count for naught where there is not a persistent adherence to truthfulness. As the mirror reflects objects as they are, without alteration, so truth presents everything as it is.

HENRY F. KLETZING

"Truth"


It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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Truths kindle light for truths.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Fall

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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

JOHN LOCKE

letter to Anthony Collins, October 30, 1703


Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

WILL ROGERS

The Illiterate Digest

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The true is Godlike: we do not see it itself; we must guess at it through its manifestations.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Truth lies in a small compass, and if a well has been assigned her, for a habitation, it is as appropriate from its narrowness, as its depth.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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