TRUTH QUOTES XXI

quotations about truth

Truth is that which is. It seems to me that the important thing is for the mind to be in a state when it can allow itself not to ask, not to demand, which does not mean acquiescence, acceptance, but that the mind is really silent.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

"What was true yesterday is not true today", The New Indian Express, March 2, 2017

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Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

ANONYMOUS


Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction ... for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

G. K. CHESTERTON

The Club of Queer Trades


As the snow before the sun, even so is a polished lie before the naked truth.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs -- the truth from the beginning.

DINAH CRAIK

A Woman's Thoughts About Women

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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Proud Highway


The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

MARCEL PROUST

The Guermantes Way

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The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


There's many a true word spoken in jest.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

"Here Be Dragons"

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Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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Truth is the edict of God.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus

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But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

North and South

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Give me truths;
For I am weary of the surfaces,
And die of inanition.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Blight

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It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair

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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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One truth a man lives is worth a thousand he only utters.

EPICHARMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma

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