TRUTH QUOTES X

quotations about truth

A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

JOSEPHINE HART

Damage

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He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.

DANIEL DEFOE

The History of the Union Between England and Scotland

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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Guilty Pleasures


Nature has completely hid truth in the bottom of a well.

DEMOCRITUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an original affinity with freedom.

MICHEL FOUCAULT

History of Sexuality

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Truth is beauty. That can be a hard thing to say, because some things are not so attractive on the surface. But by owning up to them, we change them--just by speaking them.

BONO

Oprah Magazine, April 2004

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Truth shines more brightly the more widely it is diffused.

JOHN WYCLIFFE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

NICHOLSON BAKER

The Anthologist

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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India 1924-1926


Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

PHILIP K. DICK

A Scanner Darkly

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Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Parerga and Paralipomena

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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

JOHN LOCKE

letter to Anthony Collins, October 30, 1703


Truths kindle light for truths.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

L'Envoi

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If we think we have found truth for ourselves, above all things, let us not impose it on one another. Let us lock upon it all the doors of consciousness. For however inspiring it may be to us, however ennobling, when once we try to impose it on another it becomes a poison.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Truth", Intimations

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The nearer we approach to the God of Truth, the farther we are from the danger of Error.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

MARK TWAIN

Following the Equator

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