TRUTH QUOTES XV

quotations about truth

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk


Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Our mind is dreadfully active sometimes, and the other day we began to speculate on Truth. Our friends are still avoiding us. Every man knows what Truth is, but it is impossible to utter it. The face of your listener, his eyes mirthful or sorry, his eager expectance or his churlish disdain insensibly distort your message. You find yourself saying what you know he expects you to say, or (more often) what he expects you not to say. You may not be aware of this, but that is what happens. In order that the world may go on and human beings thrive, nature has contrived that the Truth may not often be uttered.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie


The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Infinite Jest

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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

JACK LONDON

John Barleycorn

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Truth", Essays

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Truth sometimes tastes like medicine, but that is an evidence that we are ill.

JOSEPH VON METZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


Truth was the only daughter of Time.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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An adherence to truth, open and without reservation, has, from the age of chivalry downwards, been considered as one of the loftiest attributes of a "gentleman"; so much so, that, to brand as "a liar" the pretender to such a title, is one of the most deadly insults that you can offer him.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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The finding of one generation will not serve for the next. It tarnishes rapidly except it be reserved with an ever-renewed spirit of seeking.

ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Science and the Unseen World


The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


For simple are the words of truth.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Hoplon Krisis

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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

Collected Stories and Other Writings

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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook C", Aphorisms

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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Left Hand of Darkness


Truth is the right hand of God.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon