TRUTH QUOTES XXV

quotations about truth

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

A Universe from Nothing

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The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

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There must be repressed truth even in lies.

STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ

The Madman and the Nun

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Those who pursue the stream of Truth to its sources have much climbing to do, much fatigue to encounter, but they see great sights.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie

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We're told that we're living in a post-truth (or post-factual) era, a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, a culture that eschews a foundation of solid facts. Indeed, it is said that in this post-truth time, facts have become "secondary" if not entirely irrelevant. But who gets stuck with this "post-truth" label -- and it is typically used as an insult -- is not so simple.

GILBERT DOCTOROW

"Complexities of a 'Post-Truth' Era", Consortium News, May 11, 2017


One reason, I verily believe, why many are always learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth is, that they have no set intent and purpose to use truth--to make it practical and operative.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Sohrab and Rustum

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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

attributed, Physics, God, and the End of the World

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Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place -- and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all -- so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

IAIN M. BANKS

Inversions

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"Truth will prevail." It may be true; but some people, I believe, think her a very slow worker; and little will the satisfaction of her prevailing be to you, if you happen to be ruined in your reputation or fortune while she is at work.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people -- as may be noticed of most young children -- does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.

DINAH CRAIK

A Woman's Thoughts About Women


Still another condition of knowing the truth is, I think, the willingness to make some sacrifice for it.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW

Essays and Sermons


The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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Truth makes all things plain.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola


The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne--
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Present Crisis

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