TRUTH QUOTES XXV

quotations about truth

Those who pursue the stream of Truth to its sources have much climbing to do, much fatigue to encounter, but they see great sights.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

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The truth is dark under your eyelids.

CHARLES SIMIC

"Against Winter", Walking the Black Cat

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The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

MARCEL PROUST

Within a Budding Grove

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The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Our feelings often color the truth.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


One reason, I verily believe, why many are always learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth is, that they have no set intent and purpose to use truth--to make it practical and operative.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

lecture at Workers' Educational Association, May 1940

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As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Vicar of Wakefield

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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

City of Illusions

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Sohrab and Rustum

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Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

GAO XINGJIAN

"Literature as Testimony: The Search for Truth", Witness Literature: Proceedings of the Nobel Centennial Symposium

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Truth makes all things plain.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne--
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Present Crisis

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Let us not expect men to see truth before it is shown them; they do not see it afterwards.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Kingdom of Fear

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We're told that we're living in a post-truth (or post-factual) era, a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, a culture that eschews a foundation of solid facts. Indeed, it is said that in this post-truth time, facts have become "secondary" if not entirely irrelevant. But who gets stuck with this "post-truth" label -- and it is typically used as an insult -- is not so simple.

GILBERT DOCTOROW

"Complexities of a 'Post-Truth' Era", Consortium News, May 11, 2017


Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe