TRUTH QUOTES XIII

quotations about truth

Truth can only be attained by those whose systems are untainted by secret influences, such as love, envy, ambition, food, college education and moonlight in spring.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie

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You present the facts and let the people decide whether they want to believe the rumours or go by the facts. Truth is always the best counter.

D.S. HOODA

"In Kashmir, rumours fly faster than truth", The Kashmir Monitor, April 24, 2017


It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

Above the Battle

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Where the interests of truth are at actual stake, we ought, perhaps, to sacrifice even that which is our own--if, at least, we are to lay any claim to a philosophic spirit.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Familiar Letters


There is no religion higher than the truth.

MARK FROST

The List of Seven

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Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

MAXIM GORKY

The Lower Depths

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A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

ANDRE GIDE

So Be It; or, The Chips Are Down

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A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Truth is on the march; nothing can stop it now.

EMILE ZOLA

manifesto, Le Figaro

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Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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But that battered word, truth, having made its appearance here, confronts one immediately with a series of riddles and has, moreover, since so many gospels are preached, the unfortunate tendency to make one belligerent.

JAMES BALDWIN

Notes of a Native Son

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If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"If Truth Is the Lure, Humans Are Fishes"


If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

OSCAR WILDE

The Nightingale and the Rose

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There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

PHILIP ROTH

The Human Stain

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Truth never changes.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

RICHARD FEYNMAN

attributed, Sympathetic Vibrations

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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Pamela

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