TRUTH QUOTES XXIII

quotations about truth

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

City of Illusions

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Truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

POPE BENEDICT XVI

Address to the International Diplomats, March 18, 2006


There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying is thither in a straight line.

JOHN TILLOTSON

The Works of the Most Reverend John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

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The very Truth has to change its vesture, from time to time; and be born again. But all Lies have sentence of death written down against them, and Heaven's Chancery itself; and, slowly or fast, advance incessantly towards their hour.

THOMAS CARLYLE

The French Revolution: A History

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Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit;
Swifter than arrows, the light of the truth.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Nun of Nidaros", Tales of a Wayside Inn


Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford


There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulent as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Some folk never handle the truth without scratching it.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place -- and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all -- so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

IAIN M. BANKS

Inversions

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We're told that we're living in a post-truth (or post-factual) era, a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, a culture that eschews a foundation of solid facts. Indeed, it is said that in this post-truth time, facts have become "secondary" if not entirely irrelevant. But who gets stuck with this "post-truth" label -- and it is typically used as an insult -- is not so simple.

GILBERT DOCTOROW

"Complexities of a 'Post-Truth' Era", Consortium News, May 11, 2017


Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

A Game of Thrones

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The truth--a hideous spectacle!

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth Penetrant"

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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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Truth rides a long road.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


All men need truth as they need water; if wise men are as high grounds where the springs rise, ordinary men are the lower grounds which their waters nourish.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


There are truths so prosaic, so dense, so dull, that one can hardly state them without suggesting the idea of something subtler or more interesting beyond.

LORD ACTON

letter to Mary Gladstone, June 9, 1880

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The truth is dark under your eyelids.

CHARLES SIMIC

"Against Winter", Walking the Black Cat

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There is no higher religion than the truth.

HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY

The Essential Works of Helena Blavatsky


Truth is always opposed to the destructiveness of deception, duplicity, and hypocrisy. Although deviances may have their moment, truth must be forever upheld, for in due time, it will have its victory.

VINCENT J. BOVE

"Trojan Horse in the Heart of America", The Epoch Times, May 10, 2017