TRUTH QUOTES XXI

quotations about truth

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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Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

"Here Be Dragons"

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No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs -- the truth from the beginning.

DINAH CRAIK

A Woman's Thoughts About Women

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Truth is the edict of God.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


Thorough truthfulness--truthfulness to others and to ourselves--is a rare virtue; and he who indeed acts upon it is the noblest of all heroes.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


As the snow before the sun, even so is a polished lie before the naked truth.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola


Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

MARCEL PROUST

The Guermantes Way

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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Proud Highway


There's many a true word spoken in jest.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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Truth ... is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.

DONALD BARTHELME

"Rebecca"

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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"

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Truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

POPE BENEDICT XVI

Address to the International Diplomats, March 18, 2006


Give me truths;
For I am weary of the surfaces,
And die of inanition.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Blight

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One truth a man lives is worth a thousand he only utters.

EPICHARMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma

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But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

North and South

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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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