TRUTH QUOTES XXI

quotations about truth

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


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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How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

KINGSLEY AMIS

Lucky Jim

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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 strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

AESCHINES

Timarchum


We shall find some things that are true, and some that are new, but very few things that are both true and new.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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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The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Men never make truths; they only recognize the value of this currency of God. They find truths, as men sometimes find bills, in the street, and only recognize the value of that which other persons have drawn.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


There's many a true word spoken in jest.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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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


TRUTH, such as it appears to us, can only be relative, because we ourselves, being relative creatures, have only a relative perception and judgment. We appreciate that which is true to ourselves, not that which is universally true. And truth may well assume an aspect to one different from that it assumes to another.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

SATHYA SAI BABA

Thought for the Day, October 5, 2008


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


Truth wears an unchanging countenance.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying is thither in a straight line.

JOHN TILLOTSON

The Works of the Most Reverend John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

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Truth is only a question of point of view.

KARL LAGERFELD

Vice Magazine, February 28, 2010

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