TRUTH QUOTES XXI

quotations about truth

No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn't make it worse to have it said out loud.

STEPHENIE MEYER

The Host

Tags: Stephenie Meyer


Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Tags: Bruce Lee


Like the gush of the morning light, truth must go forward.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

Tags: E. H. Chapin


Give me truths;
For I am weary of the surfaces,
And die of inanition.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Blight

Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson


The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man

Tags: Johann Kaspar Lavater


No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs -- the truth from the beginning.

DINAH CRAIK

A Woman's Thoughts About Women

Tags: Dinah Craik


Truth ... is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.

DONALD BARTHELME

"Rebecca"

Tags: Donald Barthelme


Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

ANONYMOUS


Truth is only a question of point of view.

KARL LAGERFELD

Vice Magazine, February 28, 2010

Tags: Karl Lagerfeld


There's many a true word spoken in jest.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

Tags: James Joyce


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

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus

Tags: Ludwig Wittgenstein


A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


The concept of truth has clearly fallen on hard times, and the consequences of rejecting it are ravaging human society. Falsehood is so appealingly packaged that without good knowledge of the truth, one could be misled and ensnared. However, acquaintance with the truth would help identify the length and breath of falsehood, unmask and demystify its attendant effect.

CHAMBERLAIN C. OGUNEDO

"And the truth shall set you free: What is truth?", The Guardian, November 27, 2016


When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

North and South

Tags: Elizabeth Gaskell


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

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie

Tags: Christopher Morley


Truth wears an unchanging countenance.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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 is never dangerous. Except when told.

PHILIP MOELLER

Helena's Husband

Tags: Philip Moeller


Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma

Tags: Jane Austen