TRUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about truth


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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
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La monadologie


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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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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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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


Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


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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I would then like to know how it comes about that when each piece of a story is true, the whole story turns out to be false?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

debate with Stephen Douglas, September 18, 1858

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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


The greatest truths are the simplest.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


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

SUSANNE ALLEYN

Game of Patience

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Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

LUIGI PIRANDELLO

It Is So! (If You Think So)

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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


The color of truth is grey.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves

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The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Wise Blood

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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


To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Philosophical Occasions

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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


We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

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When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

DEAN KOONTZ

Forever Odd

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