TRUTH QUOTES V

quotations about truth

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


For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

DANIEL J. LEVITIN

This Is Your Brain on Music

Tags: Daniel J. Levitin


Each truth helps on the discovery of another.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci


Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise.

EMILY DICKINSON

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--

Tags: Emily Dickinson


If you want to see the truth, you must be brave enough to look.

RUNE LAZULI

Pinterest


Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The New England Tragedies

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

AYN RAND

Atlas Shrugged

Tags: Ayn Rand


All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.

WOODY ALLEN

Deconstructing Harry

Tags: Woody Allen


A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

Tags: Sir Thomas Browne


One great disadvantage to the cause of truth is, its being so often in the hands of liars.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


For behold, Thou lovest the truth, and he that doth it, cometh to the light.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

Tags: St. Augustine


All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters

Tags: Yevgeny Zamyatin


When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

No Country for Old Men

Tags: Cormac McCarthy


Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to T. W. Higginson, 1870

Tags: Emily Dickinson


There are some things that can't be the truth even if they did happen.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

Tags: Ken Kesey


The greatest truths are the simplest.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


The color of truth is grey.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves

Tags: Andre Gide


Some things are too terrible to be true.

BOB DYLAN

"Honest With Me"

Tags: Bob Dylan