TRUTH QUOTES XXII

quotations about truth

Truth is the edict of God.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

lecture at Workers' Educational Association, May 1940

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Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

"Here Be Dragons"

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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India, January 8, 1925

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You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

SATHYA SAI BABA

Thought for the Day, October 5, 2008


It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola


No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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As the snow before the sun, even so is a polished lie before the naked truth.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

speech in the House of Commons, May 17, 1916

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TRUTH, such as it appears to us, can only be relative, because we ourselves, being relative creatures, have only a relative perception and judgment. We appreciate that which is true to ourselves, not that which is universally true. And truth may well assume an aspect to one different from that it assumes to another.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Hind and the Panther

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It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair

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Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction ... for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

G. K. CHESTERTON

The Club of Queer Trades


Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Sohrab and Rustum

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History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

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One truth teacheth another.

SIR J. REYNOLDS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

City of Illusions

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