TRUTH QUOTES XIX

quotations about truth

We can, in general, be much less sure of the truth of a thing, than of the falsehood; because though every part we have seen may agree, yet we cannot tell how many may be behind, and one failure of connection will be sufficient to falsify the whole.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections


Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to John Jay, May 8, 1796

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Who make up the really great men of any age? It is those who have truth woven into every fiber of their being.

HENRY F. KLETZING

"Truth"


Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

JOHN MILTON

Areopagitica

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The semblance of absolute truth is nothing but absolute conformism.

PAUL FEYERABEND

Against Method


The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

REBECCA WEST

The Meaning of Treason

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth -- and truth rewarded me.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

All Said and Done

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I do not think that so much harm is done by giving error to a child, as by giving truth in a lifeless form.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts

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Arguably, this strategy is not viable beyond laboratory settings, because the truth is always unknown on the streets.

ANNA K. BOBAK

"Can We Improve National Security Using What We Know about Face Recognition?", Scientific American, April 18, 2017


Fairer than all fancies is the truth.

CAROLINE SPENCER

"A Vigil"

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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We cannot make things true by any amount of effort; we can merely discover what God has made true from all eternity.

HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS

Re-statements of Christian Doctrine

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Truth is that which is. It seems to me that the important thing is for the mind to be in a state when it can allow itself not to ask, not to demand, which does not mean acquiescence, acceptance, but that the mind is really silent.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

"What was true yesterday is not true today", The New Indian Express, March 2, 2017

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It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

JOHN STEINBECK

East of Eden

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Truth is within ourselves.

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus


Truth -- there's no such thing.

TANKRED DORST

Freedom for Clemens

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Notes on Virginia

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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

WILLIAM JAMES

Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness", The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Old Time was young, men's hearts were all untried
By Grief and Sin, when round this whirling ball
Pure Truth and Falsehood journeyed side by side
In free companionship. At evenfall
Of that long day which closed the Age of Gold
They came to Pleasure's lake, and both were glad
To cast their robes and seek those waters cold.
But Falsehood, first emerging, lightly clad
Her limbs in Truth's white garments, fresh and fair,
And swiftly fled away with mocking mirth;
While Truth, disdaining Falsehood's tattered wear,
Pursued. So still around the dizzy earth
Flies Falsehood, well-disguised in Truth's array,
While Truth runs after, naked to the day.

ARTHUR GUITERMAN

"Truth and Falsehood"


The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

GEORGE ELIOT

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