TRUTH QUOTES V

quotations about truth


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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

FRANCES WRIGHT
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And how is one to know what is Truth? He thinks one thing before lunch; after a stirring bout with corned beef and onions the shining vision is strangely altered. Which is Truth?

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie

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I always tell the truth when I'm drunk. In vino vomitas.

GUY BELLAMY

The Man Who Won

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All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.

WOODY ALLEN

Deconstructing Harry

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Truth is not what makes people feel good. Unfortunately, bad news can be true.

CHAMBERLAIN C. OGUNEDO

"And the truth shall set you free: What is truth?", The Guardian, November 27, 2016


But the truth is influential, it is powerful, it reaches the recesses of the mind. You cannot ask the truth not to exert its powers. The truth is one of the most important instruments in the people's struggle for food and freedom. We are out to exercise the occult powers of the truth.

JULIAN BECK

The Life of the Theatre

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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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If you want to see the truth, you must be brave enough to look.

RUNE LAZULI

Pinterest


One handles truths like dynamite.

ANAÏS NIN

The Diary of Anais Nin

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Some things are too terrible to be true.

BOB DYLAN

"Honest With Me"

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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

AESOP

Fables

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The truth is always the same ... and the wants of the human heart are not widely different.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

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Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth

DEPECHE MODE

"Policy of Truth"

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Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to T. W. Higginson, 1870

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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters

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Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

Remarks on the Science of History

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We grease the truth with rhyme.

NIK HOUSER

"A Beginner's Guide to Sandcastle Alchemy", Weird Tales, Summer 2011

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There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

La monadologie

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A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

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