TRUTH QUOTES VIII

quotations about truth


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Truth is a moral requirement for society, and offenses against honesty, by word or action, are violations against character, ethics, and moral decency.

VINCENT J. BOVE
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"Trojan Horse in the Heart of America", The Epoch Times, May 10, 2017


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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 belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

MAX BORN

attributed, The New Intimacy

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The truth ... is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution.

J. K. ROWLING

The Sorcerer's Stone

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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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There are some things that can't be the truth even if they did happen.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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Truth is beauty. That can be a hard thing to say, because some things are not so attractive on the surface. But by owning up to them, we change them--just by speaking them.

BONO

Oprah Magazine, April 2004

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The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook H", Aphorisms


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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words


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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There is often more truth in the censure of enemies than in the flattery of friends.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Truth never damages a cause that is just.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Non-Violence in Peace and War


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

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

The Dark Knight


So stands Truth before worshipping man; and so she speaks to him. Truth shrouded in mystery; clothed in light; transcending our power to look upon her full and ample proportions. No man has seen her altogether as she is. Yet many a soul, gazing earnestly, reverently, has beheld the outlines; caught here and there a lineament, a feature; has seen that, when the veil has for a moment been parted, which has excited and enraptured him, and of which he has sought to speak to others. And they have, perhaps gladly, perhaps incredulously, listened to his report. No one has ever seen the whole of Truth. And because of that, and of the imperfection of the eyes which have looked, and of the words in which they have reported, the fragmentary reports men have brought back of what they have seen have been so various and seemed so contradictory. But it does not follow, because human philosophies, sciences, theologies, which are these reports, have been so various and fleeting--it does not follow that there is no reality; but only that men have had imperfect and fragmentary vision of the reality; and made imperfect and fragmentary report of it.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW

"Truth"


To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

EUGENE O'NEILL

The Iceman Cometh

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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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Not everything that's true needs to be said.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Bones

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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


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 force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

NICHOLSON BAKER

U and I

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