TRUTH QUOTES XII

quotations about truth

If I hear the way of truth in the morning, I am content even to die in the evening.

CONFUCIUS

The Analects

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Only the dead know the truth.

LEONID ANDREYEV

Savva

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Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light -- every eye looking on finds its own.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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You know the truth, the brick-hard, irregular, slithery surface of truth.

PHILIP K. DICK

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly it be held. It is a greater disaster when the false prejudice bars the way to some truth behind it, which, but for it, would find an entrance to the soul; and the greatness of the disaster will in this case be measured by the importance of the excluded truth.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford

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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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The usefulest truths are the plainest.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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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"


Truth, though hewn like the mangled form of Osiris into a thousand pieces, and scattered to the four winds, shall be gathered limb to limb, and moulded with every joint and member into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Error is related to truth as sleep to waking. I have observed that on awakening from error a man turns again to truth as with new vigour.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


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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The most effectual method of expelling error, is, not to meet it sword in hand, but gradually to instill great truths, with which it cannot easily coexist.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts

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You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

RICHARD FEYNMAN

attributed, Sympathetic Vibrations

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Generally speaking, "truth" is a statement about what is perceived as real. And the truth is that truth is always contested. Facts can always be challenged and interpreted differently. If shared by many in a society, truths turn into societal beliefs.

CORA PFAFFEROTT

"Is 'post-truth' just a convenient lie?", Chron, January 23, 2017


I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

letter to George E. Pickett, February 22, 1841

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Truth ...
Is a breath, a wind,
A shadow, a phantom;
Long have I pursued it,
But never have I touched
The hem of its garment.

STEPHEN CRANE

The Black Riders and Other Lines

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Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

MAXIM GORKY

The Lower Depths

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You made up the truth and then buried the real thing under so much garbage that people grew weary of trying to dig through it and instead just accepted what you offered. It was the easy way out and humans were programmed to always go that way.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Whole Truth

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