TRUTH QUOTES XVII

quotations about truth

Truth is the right hand of God.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune

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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

Collected Stories and Other Writings

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I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

ELIF BATUMAN

The Possessed

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Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

R. D. LAING

attributed, R. D. Laing: The Philosophy and Politics of Psychotherapy

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Truth is too precious a commodity to be wasted upon mere idolators.

HERNANDEZ CORTEZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


Truth is within ourselves.

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus


The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

REBECCA WEST

The Meaning of Treason

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Thorough truthfulness--truthfulness to others and to ourselves--is a rare virtue; and he who indeed acts upon it is the noblest of all heroes.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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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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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

ANN PATCHETT

Truth and Beauty

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Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"


Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie


No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Truth", Essays

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They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

CONFUCIUS

The Analects

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Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Journal of Discourses

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No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs -- the truth from the beginning.

DINAH CRAIK

A Woman's Thoughts About Women

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Trump's relationship to the truth seems novel, if only because he doesn't try to hide his relativism. For Trump, truth is always more about how people feel than what may be empirically verifiable. Trump admits as much in The Art of the Deal, where he describes his sales strategy as "truthful hyperbole." For Trump, facts are fragile, and truth is flexible. Trump probably doesn't spend evenings poring over Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge -- but the parallels between Trump's attacks on accepted knowledge and critical philosophy's insistence that we interrogate truth claims suggest that not all assaults on the authority of facts are revolutionary.

CASEY WILLIAMS

"Creating Truth is Assertion of Power", Asharq Al-Awsat, April 19, 2017