TRUTH QUOTES XVIII

quotations about truth

Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

ANONYMOUS


Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?

CHARLES READE

The Cloister and the Hearth

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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


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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The truth can both lift up and knock down.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Ever After

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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India, January 8, 1925

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Condemn not truth for error's deeds.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"Flowers and Weeds"

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There must be repressed truth even in lies.

STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ

The Madman and the Nun

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Notes on Virginia

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World

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Old Time was young, men's hearts were all untried
By Grief and Sin, when round this whirling ball
Pure Truth and Falsehood journeyed side by side
In free companionship. At evenfall
Of that long day which closed the Age of Gold
They came to Pleasure's lake, and both were glad
To cast their robes and seek those waters cold.
But Falsehood, first emerging, lightly clad
Her limbs in Truth's white garments, fresh and fair,
And swiftly fled away with mocking mirth;
While Truth, disdaining Falsehood's tattered wear,
Pursued. So still around the dizzy earth
Flies Falsehood, well-disguised in Truth's array,
While Truth runs after, naked to the day.

ARTHUR GUITERMAN

"Truth and Falsehood"


Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

In Quest of Democracy

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Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Winner

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Like the gush of the morning light, truth must go forward.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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The demands of Truth are severe; she has no sympathy with the myrtles. All that which is so indispensable in Song is precisely all that with which she has nothing whatever to do. It is but making her a flaunting paradox to wreathe her in gems and flowers. In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than efflorescence of language. We must be simple, precise, terse. We must be cool, calm, unimpassioned. In a word, we must be in that mood, which, as nearly as possible, is the exact converse of the poetical. He must be blind, indeed, who does not perceive the radical and chasmal differences between the truthful and the poetical modes of inculcation. He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who, in spite of these differences, shall still persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"The Poetic Principle"

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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Truth is, whatever may be said to the contrary, superior to all fictions. One ought never to regret seeing clearer into the depths.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays