TRUTH QUOTES XXI

quotations about truth

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

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Notes on Virginia

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Some folk never handle the truth without scratching it.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

JOHN STEINBECK

East of Eden

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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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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus

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Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

AESCHINES

Timarchum


Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying is thither in a straight line.

JOHN TILLOTSON

The Works of the Most Reverend John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

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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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You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

JAMES BRANCH CABELL

The Cream of the Jest

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Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit;
Swifter than arrows, the light of the truth.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Nun of Nidaros", Tales of a Wayside Inn


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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Truth often spoils the dinner.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Truth and virtue are flowers that die not.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

A Game of Thrones

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Who make up the really great men of any age? It is those who have truth woven into every fiber of their being.

HENRY F. KLETZING

"Truth"


Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction ... for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

G. K. CHESTERTON

The Club of Queer Trades


How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

KINGSLEY AMIS

Lucky Jim

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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


The truth can both lift up and knock down.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Ever After

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