TRUTH QUOTES XXVI

quotations about truth

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


In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts.... It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

"The Book of the Grotesque", Winesburg, Ohio

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The truth had a nasty habit of biting people who refused to confront it.

DAVID WEBER

By Schism Rent Asunder

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Let us not expect men to see truth before it is shown them; they do not see it afterwards.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

DOROTHY CATHERINE FONTANA

"The Enterprise Incident", Star Trek

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

CLARENCE DARROW

The Sign

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To take thought, to take truth, and translate them into life--that is the hard, hard battle.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


To a new truth there is nothing more hurtful than an old error.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


The truth is always on trial.

D.T. OSBORN

"Truth Is Always on Trial", Liberty Voice, April 14, 2017


The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

CYRIL CONNOLLY

The Unquiet Grave

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The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


"Truth will prevail." It may be true; but some people, I believe, think her a very slow worker; and little will the satisfaction of her prevailing be to you, if you happen to be ruined in your reputation or fortune while she is at work.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


Truth never was indebted to a lie.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


He who clips away a little truth, and puts in a patch of falsehood to make measure, is likely to become a skilful manufacturer of lies.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth

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The sun of truth strikes each part of the earth at a little different angle.

HAMLIN GARLAND

Crumbling Idols


It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Veracity is not a stagnant feature of ideas, so the status of truth is always questionable.

TOMAS CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC

"Truth in the digital age: Blame people (not algorithms) for the filter bubble", Huffington Post, March 19, 2017


Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

GAO XINGJIAN

"Literature as Testimony: The Search for Truth", Witness Literature: Proceedings of the Nobel Centennial Symposium

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