TRUTH QUOTES XI

quotations about truth

A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

JOSEPHINE HART

Damage

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The truth
Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives
By suffering.
Nothing speaks the truth,
Nothing tells us how things really are,
Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain.
And this is how the gods declare their love.

AESCHYLUS

The Oresteia

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The usefulest truths are the plainest.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

WILL ROGERS

The Illiterate Digest

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Truth is the backbone of character. Nothing is beautiful or strong or permanent without truth. All qualifications that go to make up noble manhood count for naught where there is not a persistent adherence to truthfulness. As the mirror reflects objects as they are, without alteration, so truth presents everything as it is.

HENRY F. KLETZING

"Truth"


Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

OSCAR WILDE

The Nightingale and the Rose

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Will you tell me how a man's to live, and face his life, if he can't believe that truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen though it takes all the years there are? While I stand up and have breath in my lungs I shall be one flame of that fire; it's all the life I have.

MAXWELL ANDERSON

Winterset

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If we think we have found truth for ourselves, above all things, let us not impose it on one another. Let us lock upon it all the doors of consciousness. For however inspiring it may be to us, however ennobling, when once we try to impose it on another it becomes a poison.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Truth", Intimations

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Truth is always revolutionary.

ELIAS KHOURY

"Truth is always revolutionary", Malta Today, August 30, 2016


Some truths may be proclaimed upon the housetop; others may be spoken by the fireside; still others must be whispered in the ear of a friend.

ROSSITER JOHNSON

"The Whispering Gallery"


Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

MARK TWAIN

Following the Equator

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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

JOHN LOCKE

letter to Anthony Collins, October 30, 1703


In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

JENNIFER LOPEZ

True Love

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If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"If Truth Is the Lure, Humans Are Fishes"


It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly it be held. It is a greater disaster when the false prejudice bars the way to some truth behind it, which, but for it, would find an entrance to the soul; and the greatness of the disaster will in this case be measured by the importance of the excluded truth.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford

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Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

GIANNINA BRASCHI

Empire of Dreams


Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

GEORGE LILLO

George Barnwell; or, the London Merchant


Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light -- every eye looking on finds its own.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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