TRUTH QUOTES XII

quotations about truth

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

MARK TWAIN

Following the Equator

Tags: Mark Twain


You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

RICHARD FEYNMAN

attributed, Sympathetic Vibrations

Tags: Richard Feynman


Some truths may be proclaimed upon the housetop; others may be spoken by the fireside; still others must be whispered in the ear of a friend.

ROSSITER JOHNSON

"The Whispering Gallery"


Entrust Truth, whatsoever thou hast from the Truth, and thou shalt lose nothing; and thy decay shall bloom again, and all thy diseases be healed, and thy mortal parts be reformed and renewed, and bound around thee.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

Tags: St. Augustine


Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

ALAN ARKIN

Esquire, March 2007

Tags: Alan Arkin


The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

Musashi

Tags: Eiji Yoshikawa


It is dangerous to follow truth too near, lest she should kick out our teeth.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Sir Walter Raleigh


Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


Generally speaking, "truth" is a statement about what is perceived as real. And the truth is that truth is always contested. Facts can always be challenged and interpreted differently. If shared by many in a society, truths turn into societal beliefs.

CORA PFAFFEROTT

"Is 'post-truth' just a convenient lie?", Chron, January 23, 2017


Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

GEORGE LILLO

George Barnwell; or, the London Merchant


Only the dead know the truth.

LEONID ANDREYEV

Savva

Tags: Leonid Andreyev


A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


You made up the truth and then buried the real thing under so much garbage that people grew weary of trying to dig through it and instead just accepted what you offered. It was the easy way out and humans were programmed to always go that way.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Whole Truth

Tags: David Baldacci


Truth is death to the portrait painter.

FRANCIS A. DURIVAGE

"The Career of an Artist"

Tags: Francis A. Durivage


Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Truth ...
Is a breath, a wind,
A shadow, a phantom;
Long have I pursued it,
But never have I touched
The hem of its garment.

STEPHEN CRANE

The Black Riders and Other Lines

Tags: Stephen Crane


Truth is on the march; nothing can stop it now.

EMILE ZOLA

manifesto, Le Figaro

Tags: Emile Zola


You know the truth, the brick-hard, irregular, slithery surface of truth.

PHILIP K. DICK

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Tags: Philip K. Dick


The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Crossing

Tags: Cormac McCarthy


You present the facts and let the people decide whether they want to believe the rumours or go by the facts. Truth is always the best counter.

D.S. HOODA

"In Kashmir, rumours fly faster than truth", The Kashmir Monitor, April 24, 2017