TRUTH QUOTES VIII

quotations about truth

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth, than to refine themselves.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Truth is a moral requirement for society, and offenses against honesty, by word or action, are violations against character, ethics, and moral decency.

VINCENT J. BOVE

"Trojan Horse in the Heart of America", The Epoch Times, May 10, 2017


You have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping.

NICHOLAS BLACK ELK

Black Elk Speaks

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In a free society, there comes a time when the truth -- however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say -- must be told.

AL GORE

fundraising letter, May 2006

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The wayfarer,
Perceiving the pathway to truth,
Was struck with astonishment.
It was thickly grown with weeds.
"Ha," he said,
"I see that none has passed here
In a long time."
Later he saw that each weed
Was a singular knife.
"Well," he mumbled at last,
"Doubtless there are other roads."

STEPHEN CRANE

"The Wayfarer"

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Truth never damages a cause that is just.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Non-Violence in Peace and War


The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook H", Aphorisms


There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

La monadologie

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All things to all men only fools will tell,
Truth profits none but those that use it well.

JOHN STUART BLACKIE

The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues

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For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

VLADIMIR LENIN

Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

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Science and mathematics
Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,
They never touch it: consider what an explosion
Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world
If any mind for a moment touch truth.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"The Silent Shepherds"

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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

The Brothers Karamazov

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Truth is always like oil in water ... No matter how much of water you add ... it always floats on top.

AHMED MUSA

"Who are you to judge the life I live? Leicester City's Musa slams critics", The 42, May 2, 2017


When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

DEAN KOONTZ

Forever Odd

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Sometimes ... the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

The Dark Knight


To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Philosophical Occasions

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If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Ashes

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The truth ... is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution.

J. K. ROWLING

The Sorcerer's Stone

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To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

EUGENE O'NEILL

The Iceman Cometh

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