TRUTH QUOTES XIX

quotations about truth

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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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


Truth and virtue are flowers that die not.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild

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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

EUGENE IONESCO

Conversations with Eugene Ionesco

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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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Condemn not truth for error's deeds.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"Flowers and Weeds"

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Truth, to my mind, beats fiction for dramatic interest.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

The Master and Margarita


Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Truth is within ourselves.

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus


The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of Truth.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Education and time may improve and augment the uses of truth, but cannot alter the structure, which is ever the same--as proceeding from the Eternal.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Like the gush of the morning light, truth must go forward.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

DEAN KOONTZ

Forever Odd

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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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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

letter to Elizabeth Pelham, January 4, 1939

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