TRUTH QUOTES V

quotations about truth

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

DORIS LESSING

The Golden Nootbook

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

RUNE LAZULI

Pinterest


Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci


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


Each truth helps on the discovery of another.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


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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Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The New England Tragedies

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For behold, Thou lovest the truth, and he that doth it, cometh to the light.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

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One great disadvantage to the cause of truth is, its being so often in the hands of liars.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

DANIEL J. LEVITIN

This Is Your Brain on Music

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All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.

WOODY ALLEN

Deconstructing Harry

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Rex


I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.

SAUL BELLOW

The Paris Review, winter 1966

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Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


All great truths begin as blasphemies.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Annajanska

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Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to T. W. Higginson, 1870

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The greatest truths are the simplest.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

No Country for Old Men

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Some things are too terrible to be true.

BOB DYLAN

"Honest With Me"

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