TRUTH QUOTES VIII

quotations about truth

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express.

WILHELM REICH

Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals, 1934-1939

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But thou, my son, study to make prevail
One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Merope

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Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its seed. Having found the seed let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Whenever it may come, whithersoever it may blow, it will be able to germinate.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

The Forerunners

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One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Left Hand of Darkness

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The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words


Truth never damages a cause that is just.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Non-Violence in Peace and War


Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

LILLIAN HELLMAN

The Little Foxes

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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


You have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping.

NICHOLAS BLACK ELK

Black Elk Speaks

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An honest man speaks truth, though it may give offense; a vain man, in order that it may.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Sometimes ... the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

The Dark Knight


We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.

ARNOLD BENNETT

The Journal of Arnold Bennett

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The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook H", Aphorisms


It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook G", Aphorisms

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The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

MARILYN MONROE

diary, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


In a free society, there comes a time when the truth -- however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say -- must be told.

AL GORE

fundraising letter, May 2006

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Science and mathematics
Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,
They never touch it: consider what an explosion
Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world
If any mind for a moment touch truth.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"The Silent Shepherds"

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Not everything that's true needs to be said.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Bones

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