TRUTH QUOTES XIX

quotations about truth

The semblance of absolute truth is nothing but absolute conformism.

PAUL FEYERABEND

Against Method


O Truth, Truth, how inwardly did even then the marrow of my soul pant after Thee, when they often and diversely, and in many and huge books, echoed of Thee to me, though it was but an echo? And these were the dishes wherein to me, hungering after Thee, they, instead of Thee, served up the Sun and Moon, beautiful works of Thine, but yet Thy works, not Thyself, no nor Thy first works. For Thy spiritual works are before these corporeal works, celestial though they be, and shining. But I hungered and thirsted not even after those first works of Thine, but after Thee Thyself, the Truth, in whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning: yet they still set before me in those dishes, glittering fantasies, than which better were it to love this very sun (which is real to our sight at least), than those fantasies which by our eyes deceive our mind. Yet because I thought them to be Thee, I fed thereon; not eagerly, for Thou didst not in them taste to me as Thou art; for Thou wast not these emptinesses, nor was I nourished by them, but exhausted rather.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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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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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

JOHN MILTON

Areopagitica

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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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Truth is within ourselves.

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus


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

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Winner

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Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Truth, to my mind, beats fiction for dramatic interest.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

The Master and Margarita


Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

letter to Elizabeth Pelham, January 4, 1939

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The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.

PHILIP MOELLER

Helena's Husband

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You're never going to see the truth. [It's] what you're shooting for always and you always miss it. Every once in a while, you catch an edge of it. That's what's you hope for, I think, as an artist.

SAM SHEPARD

interview, 2005

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Like the gush of the morning light, truth must go forward.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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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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When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The Celtic Twilight

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Education and time may improve and augment the uses of truth, but cannot alter the structure, which is ever the same--as proceeding from the Eternal.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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