TRUTH QUOTES V

quotations about truth

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci


Truth never hurts the teller.

ROBERT BROWNING

Fifine at the Fair

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Rex


Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

MARK AKENSIDE

The Pleasures of Imagination

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A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

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Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The New England Tragedies

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Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to T. W. Higginson, 1870

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They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth
Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,
Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Present Crisis


Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

DORIS LESSING

The Golden Nootbook

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Some things are too terrible to be true.

BOB DYLAN

"Honest With Me"

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Nothing feels sexier than wearing the beautiful truth.

COURTNEY STODDEN

Twitter post, October 6, 2011

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One great disadvantage to the cause of truth is, its being so often in the hands of liars.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.

WOODY ALLEN

Deconstructing Harry

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Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm. Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The Vital Illusion

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For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

DANIEL J. LEVITIN

This Is Your Brain on Music

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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

No Country for Old Men

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Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.

LT. FRANK DREBIN (LESLIE NIELSEN)

Naked Gun 2 1/2


I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.

SAUL BELLOW

The Paris Review, winter 1966

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Annajanska

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