TRUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about truth

Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


The Truth, with a capital T, is what ought to be. Not simply what was, or what is.

JENNIFER LEE CARRELL

Interred With Their Bones

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The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words


All great truths begin as blasphemies.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Annajanska

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A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

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The greatest truths are the simplest.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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For behold, Thou lovest the truth, and he that doth it, cometh to the light.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Philosophical Occasions

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Those only who can bear the truth will hear it.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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There are some things that can't be the truth even if they did happen.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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You have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping.

NICHOLAS BLACK ELK

Black Elk Speaks

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We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

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We must not put Truth into the place of a means, but into the place of an end.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.

ARNOLD BENNETT

The Journal of Arnold Bennett

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Truth is a gem which will only reflect the rays that come direct from heaven.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Truth cannot contradict truth.

POPE LEO X

Papal bull condemning every proposition contrary to the truth of the enlightened Christian faith, Apostolici Regiminis, December 19, 1513


The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm. Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The Vital Illusion

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