TRUTH QUOTES IX

quotations about truth

The truth ... is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution.

J. K. ROWLING

The Sorcerer's Stone

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To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

EUGENE O'NEILL

The Iceman Cometh

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Truth is always revolutionary.

ELIAS KHOURY

"Truth is always revolutionary", Malta Today, August 30, 2016


Not everything that's true needs to be said.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Bones

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An honest man speaks truth, though it may give offense; a vain man, in order that it may.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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There are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Wise Blood


Truth is always like oil in water ... No matter how much of water you add ... it always floats on top.

AHMED MUSA

"Who are you to judge the life I live? Leicester City's Musa slams critics", The 42, May 2, 2017


When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

DEAN KOONTZ

Forever Odd

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Science and mathematics
Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,
They never touch it: consider what an explosion
Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world
If any mind for a moment touch truth.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"The Silent Shepherds"

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And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare
That truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

WILLIAM COWPER

Hope

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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Left Hand of Darkness

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Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its seed. Having found the seed let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Whenever it may come, whithersoever it may blow, it will be able to germinate.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

The Forerunners

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No two things can be so contradictory, so much at variance as truth and falsehood; and yet none are so mixed and united.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


Truths kindle light for truths.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

JOSEPHINE HART

Damage

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So stands Truth before worshipping man; and so she speaks to him. Truth shrouded in mystery; clothed in light; transcending our power to look upon her full and ample proportions. No man has seen her altogether as she is. Yet many a soul, gazing earnestly, reverently, has beheld the outlines; caught here and there a lineament, a feature; has seen that, when the veil has for a moment been parted, which has excited and enraptured him, and of which he has sought to speak to others. And they have, perhaps gladly, perhaps incredulously, listened to his report. No one has ever seen the whole of Truth. And because of that, and of the imperfection of the eyes which have looked, and of the words in which they have reported, the fragmentary reports men have brought back of what they have seen have been so various and seemed so contradictory. But it does not follow, because human philosophies, sciences, theologies, which are these reports, have been so various and fleeting--it does not follow that there is no reality; but only that men have had imperfect and fragmentary vision of the reality; and made imperfect and fragmentary report of it.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW

"Truth"


Truth is beauty. That can be a hard thing to say, because some things are not so attractive on the surface. But by owning up to them, we change them--just by speaking them.

BONO

Oprah Magazine, April 2004

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If a man lived in a desert for six months without food, drink or companionship he would be reasonably free from prejudice and would be in a condition to enunciate great truths. But even then his vision of reality would have been warped by so much sand and so many sunsets. Even if he survived and brought us his Truth with all the gravity and long night-gown of a Hindu faker, as soon as any one listened to him his message would no longer be Truth. The complexion of his audience, the very shape of their noses, would subtly undermine his magnificent aloofness.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie