TRUTH QUOTES XXI

quotations about truth

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of Truth.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


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

DONALD BARTHELME

"Rebecca"

Tags: Donald Barthelme


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

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Tags: Bruce Lee


Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

Tags: Henri-Frederic Amiel


Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

ANONYMOUS


Truth, to my mind, beats fiction for dramatic interest.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

Tags: Lewis F. Korns


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

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


There's many a true word spoken in jest.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

Tags: James Joyce


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 is only a question of point of view.

KARL LAGERFELD

Vice Magazine, February 28, 2010

Tags: Karl Lagerfeld


Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

AESCHINES

Timarchum


Truth is the edict of God.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie

Tags: Christopher Morley


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


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

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus

Tags: Ludwig Wittgenstein


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


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


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

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought