TRUTH QUOTES XXI

quotations about truth

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs -- the truth from the beginning.

DINAH CRAIK

A Woman's Thoughts About Women

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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man

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Give me truths;
For I am weary of the surfaces,
And die of inanition.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Blight

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

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn't make it worse to have it said out loud.

STEPHENIE MEYER

The Host

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Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

AESCHINES

Timarchum


Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

"Here Be Dragons"

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Truth is the edict of God.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma

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Thorough truthfulness--truthfulness to others and to ourselves--is a rare virtue; and he who indeed acts upon it is the noblest of all heroes.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


Truth wears an unchanging countenance.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie

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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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Truth is only a question of point of view.

KARL LAGERFELD

Vice Magazine, February 28, 2010

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

lecture at Workers' Educational Association, May 1940

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