TRUTH QUOTES XVI

quotations about truth

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Truth is the right hand of God.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie


Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

"Stammbuch"

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It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of spirit should be measured according to how much of the "truth" one could still barely endure--or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil

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Truth is too precious a commodity to be wasted upon mere idolators.

HERNANDEZ CORTEZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


For simple are the words of truth.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Hoplon Krisis

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The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

R. D. LAING

attributed, R. D. Laing: The Philosophy and Politics of Psychotherapy

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

OSCAR WILDE

The Critic as Artist

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Truth is not simply what is believed. A lie believed is still a lie.

CHAMBERLAIN C. OGUNEDO

"And the truth shall set you free: What is truth?", The Guardian, November 27, 2016


There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

TOM STOPPARD

The Invention of Love

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An adherence to truth, open and without reservation, has, from the age of chivalry downwards, been considered as one of the loftiest attributes of a "gentleman"; so much so, that, to brand as "a liar" the pretender to such a title, is one of the most deadly insults that you can offer him.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

ELIF BATUMAN

The Possessed

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Old Time was young, men's hearts were all untried
By Grief and Sin, when round this whirling ball
Pure Truth and Falsehood journeyed side by side
In free companionship. At evenfall
Of that long day which closed the Age of Gold
They came to Pleasure's lake, and both were glad
To cast their robes and seek those waters cold.
But Falsehood, first emerging, lightly clad
Her limbs in Truth's white garments, fresh and fair,
And swiftly fled away with mocking mirth;
While Truth, disdaining Falsehood's tattered wear,
Pursued. So still around the dizzy earth
Flies Falsehood, well-disguised in Truth's array,
While Truth runs after, naked to the day.

ARTHUR GUITERMAN

"Truth and Falsehood"


How sweet is truth to the understanding! And, when spoken in a language every word of which is familiar, how harmonious it sounds to the ear by which the sentiments find their way to the heart!

HOSEA BALLOU

A Series of Letters in Defense of Divine Revelation

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You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Truth is, whatever may be said to the contrary, superior to all fictions. One ought never to regret seeing clearer into the depths.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays