TRUTH QUOTES XXV

quotations about truth

Truth is that which is. It seems to me that the important thing is for the mind to be in a state when it can allow itself not to ask, not to demand, which does not mean acquiescence, acceptance, but that the mind is really silent.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

"What was true yesterday is not true today", The New Indian Express, March 2, 2017

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Truth is only a question of point of view.

KARL LAGERFELD

Vice Magazine, February 28, 2010

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

ROBERT FROST

"The Black Cottage"

Tags: Robert Frost


Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

City of Illusions

Tags: Ursula K. Le Guin


Some folk never handle the truth without scratching it.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


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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Still another condition of knowing the truth is, I think, the willingness to make some sacrifice for it.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW

Essays and Sermons


Whatever of truth or approximation to truth we have attained, we must hold to it with tenacity and assurance as the truth for us and for the time; must hold to it to live and die by. It seems to me that this fidelity to the conviction of the hour, truth will not dispense with. If a man holds faintly and indecisively to what of truth he has attained, I do not see how he can gain any more beyond. Nevertheless, we must hold it in readiness to give it up the hour that a new or larger truth is revealed. For truth in our minds, our vision of it, is not a finality, but a march. And the moment the word is given, we must strike our tent, without a sigh.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW

Essays and Sermons


Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola


It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

DOROTHY CATHERINE FONTANA

"The Enterprise Incident", Star Trek

Tags: D. C. Fontana


Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

MAXIM GORKY

The Lower Depths

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There must be repressed truth even in lies.

STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ

The Madman and the Nun

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It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to everyone.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


To take thought, to take truth, and translate them into life--that is the hard, hard battle.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

A Universe from Nothing

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Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people -- as may be noticed of most young children -- does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.

DINAH CRAIK

A Woman's Thoughts About Women


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

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

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Supreme truths are the foundation on which repose the state of human society.

POPE LEO XIII

attributed, Day's Collacon


Veracity is not a stagnant feature of ideas, so the status of truth is always questionable.

TOMAS CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC

"Truth in the digital age: Blame people (not algorithms) for the filter bubble", Huffington Post, March 19, 2017