TRUTH QUOTES XXI

quotations about truth

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

MARCEL PROUST

The Guermantes Way

Tags: Marcel Proust


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


Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Proud Highway


Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

ANONYMOUS


One truth a man lives is worth a thousand he only utters.

EPICHARMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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


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

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Tags: Bruce Lee


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

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


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


Truth is the edict of God.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"

Tags: Ambrose Bierce


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

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus

Tags: Ludwig Wittgenstein


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

DONALD BARTHELME

"Rebecca"

Tags: Donald Barthelme


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


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


There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulent as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Tags: Charles Caleb Colton


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


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

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


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

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Blight

Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson