TRUTH QUOTES XII

quotations about truth

Generally speaking, "truth" is a statement about what is perceived as real. And the truth is that truth is always contested. Facts can always be challenged and interpreted differently. If shared by many in a society, truths turn into societal beliefs.

CORA PFAFFEROTT

"Is 'post-truth' just a convenient lie?", Chron, January 23, 2017


Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light -- every eye looking on finds its own.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

GIANNINA BRASCHI

Empire of Dreams


It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly it be held. It is a greater disaster when the false prejudice bars the way to some truth behind it, which, but for it, would find an entrance to the soul; and the greatness of the disaster will in this case be measured by the importance of the excluded truth.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford

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He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an original affinity with freedom.

MICHEL FOUCAULT

History of Sexuality

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Entrust Truth, whatsoever thou hast from the Truth, and thou shalt lose nothing; and thy decay shall bloom again, and all thy diseases be healed, and thy mortal parts be reformed and renewed, and bound around thee.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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Truth can only be attained by those whose systems are untainted by secret influences, such as love, envy, ambition, food, college education and moonlight in spring.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie

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If I hear the way of truth in the morning, I am content even to die in the evening.

CONFUCIUS

The Analects

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The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Crossing

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It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Truth irritates those only whom it enlightens, but does not convert.

PASQUIER QUESNEL

attributed, Day's Collacon


With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics


Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Truth is a chameleon.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides

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Only the dead know the truth.

LEONID ANDREYEV

Savva

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Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

Above the Battle

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Truth ...
Is a breath, a wind,
A shadow, a phantom;
Long have I pursued it,
But never have I touched
The hem of its garment.

STEPHEN CRANE

The Black Riders and Other Lines

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Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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