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


Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

L'Envoi

Tags: James Russell Lowell


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

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Merope

Tags: Matthew Arnold


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

DEMOCRITUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

NICHOLSON BAKER

The Anthologist

Tags: Nicholson Baker


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

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Truth shines more brightly the more widely it is diffused.

JOHN WYCLIFFE

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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


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


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

EPICTETUS

Fragments

Tags: Epictetus


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


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


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


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

ALAN ARKIN

Esquire, March 2007

Tags: Alan Arkin


There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

ANAÏS NIN

diary, Fall 1943

Tags: Anaïs Nin


Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

Tags: Austin O'Malley