TRUTH QUOTES IV

quotations about truth

The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth.

SCOTT ADAMS

God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

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Truth never hurts the teller.

ROBERT BROWNING

Fifine at the Fair

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We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


And how is one to know what is Truth? He thinks one thing before lunch; after a stirring bout with corned beef and onions the shining vision is strangely altered. Which is Truth?

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie

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All you can do, every day, is to learn the truth as best you can.

SUSANNE ALLEYN

Game of Patience

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We grease the truth with rhyme.

NIK HOUSER

"A Beginner's Guide to Sandcastle Alchemy", Weird Tales, Summer 2011

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That which is not formed of truth is of bad texture.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Dark should torch of Truth be never,
For it burns with love divine.
Light it should all people, nations,
In our hearts should be its shrine.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Truth's Torch"

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We are too small, all but a few of us, to hold more than a little of the truth.

JOHN C. BAILEY

The Claims of French Poetry

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I always tell the truth when I'm drunk. In vino vomitas.

GUY BELLAMY

The Man Who Won

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away.

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"Essay on Christianity"

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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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The sad truth is the truth is sad.

DANIEL HANDLER

as Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

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Nothing feels sexier than wearing the beautiful truth.

COURTNEY STODDEN

Twitter post, October 6, 2011

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If power does not listen to truth, power will reap its own destruction.

PAUL TYSON

"Adults in the Room, by Yanis Varoufakis", Open Democracy, May 11, 2017


Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

MARK AKENSIDE

The Pleasures of Imagination

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They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth
Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,
Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Present Crisis


Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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When we mean to touch the heart, we always speak the truth in some degree. It is our last resource; and if it were our first, we should have less to lament.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust