TRUTH QUOTES V

quotations about truth

Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

MARK AKENSIDE

The Pleasures of Imagination

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We are too small, all but a few of us, to hold more than a little of the truth.

JOHN C. BAILEY

The Claims of French Poetry

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Each truth helps on the discovery of another.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


I always tell the truth when I'm drunk. In vino vomitas.

GUY BELLAMY

The Man Who Won

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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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Some things are too terrible to be true.

BOB DYLAN

"Honest With Me"

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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence

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Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci


One great disadvantage to the cause of truth is, its being so often in the hands of liars.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

DORIS LESSING

The Golden Nootbook

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Nothing feels sexier than wearing the beautiful truth.

COURTNEY STODDEN

Twitter post, October 6, 2011

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Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.

LT. FRANK DREBIN (LESLIE NIELSEN)

Naked Gun 2 1/2


They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth
Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,
Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Present Crisis


When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

No Country for Old Men

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Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The New England Tragedies

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Half the Truth is often a great Lie.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758

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I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.

SAUL BELLOW

The Paris Review, winter 1966

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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

FRANCES WRIGHT

Course of Popular Lectures

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Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to T. W. Higginson, 1870

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For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

DANIEL J. LEVITIN

This Is Your Brain on Music

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