TRUTH QUOTES XIX

quotations about truth

Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?

CHARLES READE

The Cloister and the Hearth

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Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to John Jay, May 8, 1796

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Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

CONFUCIUS

The Analects

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Truth and virtue are flowers that die not.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


We can, in general, be much less sure of the truth of a thing, than of the falsehood; because though every part we have seen may agree, yet we cannot tell how many may be behind, and one failure of connection will be sufficient to falsify the whole.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections


When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild

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Education and time may improve and augment the uses of truth, but cannot alter the structure, which is ever the same--as proceeding from the Eternal.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

letter to Elizabeth Pelham, January 4, 1939

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The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

DEAN KOONTZ

Forever Odd

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The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of Truth.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

JOHN MILTON

Areopagitica

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To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

The Master and Margarita


Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Truth is within ourselves.

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus


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

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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