TRUTH QUOTES XXII

quotations about truth

You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

SATHYA SAI BABA

Thought for the Day, October 5, 2008


The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.

PHILIP MOELLER

Helena's Husband

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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India, January 8, 1925

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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


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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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


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

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


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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The concept of truth has clearly fallen on hard times, and the consequences of rejecting it are ravaging human society. Falsehood is so appealingly packaged that without good knowledge of the truth, one could be misled and ensnared. However, acquaintance with the truth would help identify the length and breath of falsehood, unmask and demystify its attendant effect.

CHAMBERLAIN C. OGUNEDO

"And the truth shall set you free: What is truth?", The Guardian, November 27, 2016


It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

lecture at Workers' Educational Association, May 1940

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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

City of Illusions

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TRUTH, such as it appears to us, can only be relative, because we ourselves, being relative creatures, have only a relative perception and judgment. We appreciate that which is true to ourselves, not that which is universally true. And truth may well assume an aspect to one different from that it assumes to another.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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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


Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Sohrab and Rustum

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Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction ... for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

G. K. CHESTERTON

The Club of Queer Trades


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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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The very Truth has to change its vesture, from time to time; and be born again. But all Lies have sentence of death written down against them, and Heaven's Chancery itself; and, slowly or fast, advance incessantly towards their hour.

THOMAS CARLYLE

The French Revolution: A History

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One truth teacheth another.

SIR J. REYNOLDS

attributed, Day's Collacon