TRUTH QUOTES XIX

quotations about truth

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes--never!

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

The Master and Margarita

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We can, in general, be much less sure of the truth of a thing, than of the falsehood; because though every part we have seen may agree, yet we cannot tell how many may be behind, and one failure of connection will be sufficient to falsify the whole.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections


Who make up the really great men of any age? It is those who have truth woven into every fiber of their being.

HENRY F. KLETZING

"Truth"


Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild

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Arguably, this strategy is not viable beyond laboratory settings, because the truth is always unknown on the streets.

ANNA K. BOBAK

"Can We Improve National Security Using What We Know about Face Recognition?", Scientific American, April 18, 2017


Fairer than all fancies is the truth.

CAROLINE SPENCER

"A Vigil"

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I do not think that so much harm is done by giving error to a child, as by giving truth in a lifeless form.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts

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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

EUGENE IONESCO

Conversations with Eugene Ionesco

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Notes on Virginia

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It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

JOHN STEINBECK

East of Eden

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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

REBECCA WEST

The Meaning of Treason

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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

WILLIAM JAMES

Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness", The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Truth -- there's no such thing.

TANKRED DORST

Freedom for Clemens

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Truth is that which is. It seems to me that the important thing is for the mind to be in a state when it can allow itself not to ask, not to demand, which does not mean acquiescence, acceptance, but that the mind is really silent.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

"What was true yesterday is not true today", The New Indian Express, March 2, 2017

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We cannot make things true by any amount of effort; we can merely discover what God has made true from all eternity.

HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS

Re-statements of Christian Doctrine

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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If the feeble mind of man did not presume to resist the clear evidence of truth, but yielded its infirmity to wholesome doctrines, as to a health-giving medicine, until it obtained from God, by its faith and piety, the grace needed to heal it, they who have just ideas, and express them in suitable language, would need to use no long discourse to refute the errors of empty conjecture. But this mental infirmity is now more prevalent and hurtful than ever, to such an extent that even after the truth has been as fully demonstrated as man can prove it to man, they hold for the very truth their own unreasonable fancies, either on account of their great blindness, which prevents them from seeing what is plainly set before them, or on account of their opinionative obstinacy, which prevents them from acknowledging the force of what they do see.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

MAXIM GORKY

Untimely Thoughts

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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Proud Highway