TRUTH QUOTES XVI

quotations about truth

Truth is too precious a commodity to be wasted upon mere idolators.

HERNANDEZ CORTEZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

ELIF BATUMAN

The Possessed

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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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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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There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

TOM STOPPARD

The Invention of Love

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If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

WASHINGTON ALLSTON

Lectures on Art and Poems

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They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

FANNY KEMBLE

Further Records, February 8, 1875

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Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

"Stammbuch"

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Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to John Jay, May 8, 1796

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Truth is a pillar erected by God, and upholdeth the universe.

JAMES LINEN

"Desultorious Chronicles", The Poetical and Prose Writings of James Linen


Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

ARIANA FRANKLIN

Mistress of the Art of Death

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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


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

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

JACK LONDON

John Barleycorn

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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured, but, like the sun, only for a time.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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For simple are the words of truth.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Hoplon Krisis

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Although the truth is not always pleasant, the truth is always a gift because it offers the recipient of that information the chance to change the outcome.

DENISE RESTAURI

"Four Words That Give This CEO The Courage To Take On The Beauty Industry", Forbes, December 8, 2016


Truth is not simply what is believed. A lie believed is still a lie.

CHAMBERLAIN C. OGUNEDO

"And the truth shall set you free: What is truth?", The Guardian, November 27, 2016


They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

CONFUCIUS

The Analects

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