TRUTH QUOTES X

quotations about truth

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook G", Aphorisms

Tags: Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg


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


But thou, my son, study to make prevail
One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Merope

Tags: Matthew Arnold


Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

NICHOLSON BAKER

The Anthologist

Tags: Nicholson Baker


The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

MARILYN MONROE

diary, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

Tags: Marilyn Monroe


Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

MORDECAI RICHLER

Son of a Smaller Hero

Tags: Mordecai Richler


Nature has completely hid truth in the bottom of a well.

DEMOCRITUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Truth shines more brightly the more widely it is diffused.

JOHN WYCLIFFE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

PHILIP K. DICK

A Scanner Darkly

Tags: Philip K. Dick


An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India 1924-1926


Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

Tags: Ken Kesey


Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Basic Education


The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

Musashi

Tags: Eiji Yoshikawa


The true is Godlike: we do not see it itself; we must guess at it through its manifestations.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

EPICTETUS

Fragments

Tags: Epictetus


He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.

DANIEL DEFOE

The History of the Union Between England and Scotland

Tags: Daniel Defoe


Will you tell me how a man's to live, and face his life, if he can't believe that truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen though it takes all the years there are? While I stand up and have breath in my lungs I shall be one flame of that fire; it's all the life I have.

MAXWELL ANDERSON

Winterset

Tags: Maxwell Anderson


Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

ALAN ARKIN

Esquire, March 2007

Tags: Alan Arkin


To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

JOHN LOCKE

letter to Anthony Collins, October 30, 1703