TRUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about truth

Some things are too terrible to be true.

BOB DYLAN

"Honest With Me"

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

DORIS LESSING

The Golden Nootbook

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The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Wise Blood

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Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm. Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The Vital Illusion

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Truth cannot contradict truth.

POPE LEO X

Papal bull condemning every proposition contrary to the truth of the enlightened Christian faith, Apostolici Regiminis, December 19, 1513


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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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth, than to refine themselves.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Rex


For behold, Thou lovest the truth, and he that doth it, cometh to the light.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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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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The color of truth is grey.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves

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When we mean to touch the heart, we always speak the truth in some degree. It is our last resource; and if it were our first, we should have less to lament.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them.

HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY

Lucifer


A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence

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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Ashes

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If a man lived in a desert for six months without food, drink or companionship he would be reasonably free from prejudice and would be in a condition to enunciate great truths. But even then his vision of reality would have been warped by so much sand and so many sunsets. Even if he survived and brought us his Truth with all the gravity and long night-gown of a Hindu faker, as soon as any one listened to him his message would no longer be Truth. The complexion of his audience, the very shape of their noses, would subtly undermine his magnificent aloofness.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie


When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

No Country for Old Men

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