TRUTH QUOTES XXV

quotations about truth

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Vicar of Wakefield

Tags: Oliver Goldsmith


The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

MARCEL PROUST

Within a Budding Grove

Tags: Marcel Proust


Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

POPE BENEDICT XVI

Encyclical Letter, Caritas in Veritate, June 29, 2009


We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

MARCEL PROUST

Sodom and Gomorrah

Tags: Marcel Proust


I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Kingdom of Fear

Tags: Hunter S. Thompson


The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

A Universe from Nothing

Tags: Lawrence M. Krauss


Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

ROBERT FROST

"The Black Cottage"

Tags: Robert Frost


Call it what you want: relativism, constructivism, deconstruction, postmodernism, critique. The idea is the same: Truth is not found, but made, and making truth means exercising power.

CASEY WILLIAMS

"Creating Truth is Assertion of Power", Asharq Al-Awsat, April 19, 2017


You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

JAMES BRANCH CABELL

The Cream of the Jest

Tags: James Branch Cabell


Truth makes all things plain.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Tags: William Shakespeare


Still another condition of knowing the truth is, I think, the willingness to make some sacrifice for it.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW

Essays and Sermons


Those who pursue the stream of Truth to its sources have much climbing to do, much fatigue to encounter, but they see great sights.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

Tags: Eliza Cook


The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

Tags: Frank Herbert


Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Truth", Essays


Our feelings often color the truth.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


One reason, I verily believe, why many are always learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth is, that they have no set intent and purpose to use truth--to make it practical and operative.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


Supreme truths are the foundation on which repose the state of human society.

POPE LEO XIII

attributed, Day's Collacon


Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people -- as may be noticed of most young children -- does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.

DINAH CRAIK

A Woman's Thoughts About Women


Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne--
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Present Crisis

Tags: James Russell Lowell


The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon