TRUTH QUOTES XXII

quotations about truth

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

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus

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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

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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 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


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


Truth wears an unchanging countenance.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"

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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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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

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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

City of Illusions

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Truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

POPE BENEDICT XVI

Address to the International Diplomats, March 18, 2006


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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Sohrab and Rustum

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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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There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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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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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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