TRUTH QUOTES II
quotations about truth
I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth.
HOWARD ZINN
Marx in Soho
Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Truthful lips endure forever, the lying tongue, for only a moment.
BIBLE
Proverbs 12:19
'Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.
JOHN ARBUTHNOT
An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning
Prophecy has always been a tough gig. Ask Jeremiah. Power wants and always forms a compliant priesthood to uphold its dignity and unassailable legitimacy before the people. So someone who really discerns the truth is always a problem for power.
PAUL TYSON
"Adults in the Room, by Yanis Varoufakis", Open Democracy, May 11, 2017
The truth is like a strung-out pimp in the middle of a storm.
ROBERTO BOLAÑO
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.
GEORGE BERKELEY
Siris
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
MARTIN LUTHER
Table Talk
Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street.
WOLFGANG BORCHERT
The Outsider
Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.
MAXIM GORKY
Untimely Thoughts
In Washington, D. C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth.
JOE BIDEN
speech to national conference of the National Association of Black Journalists in Washington, D.C., June 20, 2012
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.
MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain's Notebooks
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING
The Last Gunslinger
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Sign of Four
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
The fury to unveil the truth, to get at the naked truth, the one which haunts all discourses of interpretation, the obscene rage to uncover the secret, is proportionate to the impossibility of ever achieving this.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
The Ecstasy of Communication
There is nothing as boring as the truth.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
There is no middle ground. What is not true is false.
HENRY F. KLETZING
Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light