TRUTH QUOTES IV

quotations about truth

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

DEMOSTHENES

attributed, Day's Collacon


That which is not formed of truth is of bad texture.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

The Future of the Theater

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But the truth is influential, it is powerful, it reaches the recesses of the mind. You cannot ask the truth not to exert its powers. The truth is one of the most important instruments in the people's struggle for food and freedom. We are out to exercise the occult powers of the truth.

JULIAN BECK

The Life of the Theatre

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No one wants it to be true. But the truth doesn't care what anyone wants.

GLEN DUNCAN

By Blood We Live

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And how is one to know what is Truth? He thinks one thing before lunch; after a stirring bout with corned beef and onions the shining vision is strangely altered. Which is Truth?

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Rex


The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away.

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man


Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Truth never hurts the teller.

ROBERT BROWNING

Fifine at the Fair

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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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If power does not listen to truth, power will reap its own destruction.

PAUL TYSON

"Adults in the Room, by Yanis Varoufakis", Open Democracy, May 11, 2017


If you want to see the truth, you must be brave enough to look.

RUNE LAZULI

Pinterest


We grease the truth with rhyme.

NIK HOUSER

"A Beginner's Guide to Sandcastle Alchemy", Weird Tales, Summer 2011

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Dark should torch of Truth be never,
For it burns with love divine.
Light it should all people, nations,
In our hearts should be its shrine.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Truth's Torch"

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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

AYN RAND

Atlas Shrugged

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All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.

WOODY ALLEN

Deconstructing Harry

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Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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There is an inherent and absolute authority in all truth, which makes it, in the end, unconquerable and victorious. The truth is mighty, and will prevail. What is founded on error, has rottenness for its corner-stone; and although it may temporarily be upheld by foreign aid, yet, deserted by its supporters, it always finally tumbles to the ground.

HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS

Re-statements of Christian Doctrine

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