TRUTH QUOTES XVI

quotations about truth

Truth -- there's no such thing.

TANKRED DORST

Freedom for Clemens

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Truth is, whatever may be said to the contrary, superior to all fictions. One ought never to regret seeing clearer into the depths.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays


How sweet is truth to the understanding! And, when spoken in a language every word of which is familiar, how harmonious it sounds to the ear by which the sentiments find their way to the heart!

HOSEA BALLOU

A Series of Letters in Defense of Divine Revelation

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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"

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Truth sometimes tastes like medicine, but that is an evidence that we are ill.

JOSEPH VON METZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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Truth is too precious a commodity to be wasted upon mere idolators.

HERNANDEZ CORTEZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


An adherence to truth, open and without reservation, has, from the age of chivalry downwards, been considered as one of the loftiest attributes of a "gentleman"; so much so, that, to brand as "a liar" the pretender to such a title, is one of the most deadly insults that you can offer him.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Were truth our uttered language, Angels might talk with men.

GERALD MASSEY

"The World is Full of Beauty"

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Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

ANTONIN ARTAUD

Selected Writings

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When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The Celtic Twilight

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A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

SAUL BELLOW

Herzog


The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

REBECCA WEST

The Meaning of Treason

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Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

R. D. LAING

attributed, R. D. Laing: The Philosophy and Politics of Psychotherapy

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The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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We cannot make things true by any amount of effort; we can merely discover what God has made true from all eternity.

HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS

Re-statements of Christian Doctrine

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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie