TRUTH QUOTES V

quotations about truth

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

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to T. W. Higginson, 1870

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Those only who can bear the truth will hear it.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth

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One handles truths like dynamite.

ANAÏS NIN

The Diary of Anais Nin

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Each truth helps on the discovery of another.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


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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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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The Truth, with a capital T, is what ought to be. Not simply what was, or what is.

JENNIFER LEE CARRELL

Interred With Their Bones

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

RUNE LAZULI

Pinterest


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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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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The greatest truths are the simplest.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


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

GUY BELLAMY

The Man Who Won

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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

AYN RAND

Atlas Shrugged

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We must not put Truth into the place of a means, but into the place of an end.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


We grease the truth with rhyme.

NIK HOUSER

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

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If man refused to believe those truths which were not made evident to his reason, he could not live among his fellows, nor could he make the slightest progress in civilization.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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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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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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All you can do, every day, is to learn the truth as best you can.

SUSANNE ALLEYN

Game of Patience

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