TRUTH QUOTES IV

quotations about truth

We grease the truth with rhyme.

NIK HOUSER

"A Beginner's Guide to Sandcastle Alchemy", Weird Tales, Summer 2011

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Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

Remarks on the Science of History

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That which is not formed of truth is of bad texture.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

DEMOSTHENES

attributed, Day's Collacon


God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


We are too small, all but a few of us, to hold more than a little of the truth.

JOHN C. BAILEY

The Claims of French Poetry

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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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I always tell the truth when I'm drunk. In vino vomitas.

GUY BELLAMY

The Man Who Won

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If power does not listen to truth, power will reap its own destruction.

PAUL TYSON

"Adults in the Room, by Yanis Varoufakis", Open Democracy, May 11, 2017


The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"Essay on Christianity"

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Dark should torch of Truth be never,
For it burns with love divine.
Light it should all people, nations,
In our hearts should be its shrine.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Truth's Torch"

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Truth never hurts the teller.

ROBERT BROWNING

Fifine at the Fair

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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise.

EMILY DICKINSON

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--

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Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

AYN RAND

Atlas Shrugged

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Each truth helps on the discovery of another.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


The sad truth is the truth is sad.

DANIEL HANDLER

as Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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If you want to see the truth, you must be brave enough to look.

RUNE LAZULI

Pinterest


When we mean to touch the heart, we always speak the truth in some degree. It is our last resource; and if it were our first, we should have less to lament.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust