TRUTH QUOTES XXV

quotations about truth

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

ANNE LAMOTT

Bird by Bird

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The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

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Truth shall fear no open shame.

ANNE BOLEYN

attributed, Day's Collacon


The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The truth is dark under your eyelids.

CHARLES SIMIC

"Against Winter", Walking the Black Cat

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Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

POPE BENEDICT XVI

Encyclical Letter, Caritas in Veritate, June 29, 2009


Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola


It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Every man can have his own peculiar truth; and yet it is always the same.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


One reason, I verily believe, why many are always learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth is, that they have no set intent and purpose to use truth--to make it practical and operative.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


Still another condition of knowing the truth is, I think, the willingness to make some sacrifice for it.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW

Essays and Sermons


I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Kingdom of Fear

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You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

JAMES BRANCH CABELL

The Cream of the Jest

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The truth had a nasty habit of biting people who refused to confront it.

DAVID WEBER

By Schism Rent Asunder

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Those who pursue the stream of Truth to its sources have much climbing to do, much fatigue to encounter, but they see great sights.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Truth", Essays


We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

MARCEL PROUST

Sodom and Gomorrah

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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne--
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Present Crisis

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Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people -- as may be noticed of most young children -- does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.

DINAH CRAIK

A Woman's Thoughts About Women