TRUTH QUOTES XIX

quotations about truth


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Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

ARIANA FRANKLIN
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Mistress of the Art of Death


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You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

JOHN MILTON

Areopagitica

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Truth is artless and innocent--like the eloquence of nature, it is clothed with simplicity and easy persuasion; always open to investigation and analysis, it seeks exposure, because it fears not detection.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Condemn not truth for error's deeds.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"Flowers and Weeds"

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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

MAXIM GORKY

Untimely Thoughts

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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"

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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured, but, like the sun, only for a time.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

EUGENE IONESCO

Conversations with Eugene Ionesco

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Although the truth is not always pleasant, the truth is always a gift because it offers the recipient of that information the chance to change the outcome.

DENISE RESTAURI

"Four Words That Give This CEO The Courage To Take On The Beauty Industry", Forbes, December 8, 2016


Arguably, this strategy is not viable beyond laboratory settings, because the truth is always unknown on the streets.

ANNA K. BOBAK

"Can We Improve National Security Using What We Know about Face Recognition?", Scientific American, April 18, 2017


If the feeble mind of man did not presume to resist the clear evidence of truth, but yielded its infirmity to wholesome doctrines, as to a health-giving medicine, until it obtained from God, by its faith and piety, the grace needed to heal it, they who have just ideas, and express them in suitable language, would need to use no long discourse to refute the errors of empty conjecture. But this mental infirmity is now more prevalent and hurtful than ever, to such an extent that even after the truth has been as fully demonstrated as man can prove it to man, they hold for the very truth their own unreasonable fancies, either on account of their great blindness, which prevents them from seeing what is plainly set before them, or on account of their opinionative obstinacy, which prevents them from acknowledging the force of what they do see.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.

PHILIP MOELLER

Helena's Husband

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

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes--never!

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

The Master and Margarita

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Education and time may improve and augment the uses of truth, but cannot alter the structure, which is ever the same--as proceeding from the Eternal.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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I tried to put a bird in a cage.
O fool that I am!
For the bird was Truth.
Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put
Truth in a cage!

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

The Fool's Song

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I do not think that so much harm is done by giving error to a child, as by giving truth in a lifeless form.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth -- and truth rewarded me.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

All Said and Done

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