TRUTH QUOTES XI

quotations about truth


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If you seek truth, you will not seek by every means to gain a victory; and if you have found truth, you will have the gain of not being defeated.

EPICTETUS
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Fragments


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It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Entrust Truth, whatsoever thou hast from the Truth, and thou shalt lose nothing; and thy decay shall bloom again, and all thy diseases be healed, and thy mortal parts be reformed and renewed, and bound around thee.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

Tags: St. Augustine


Truths kindle light for truths.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

Tags: Lucretius


The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Parerga and Paralipomena

Tags: Arthur Schopenhauer


An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India 1924-1926


Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Fall

Tags: Albert Camus


New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

Tags: Horace Mann


Truth is the backbone of character. Nothing is beautiful or strong or permanent without truth. All qualifications that go to make up noble manhood count for naught where there is not a persistent adherence to truthfulness. As the mirror reflects objects as they are, without alteration, so truth presents everything as it is.

HENRY F. KLETZING

"Truth"


Truth lies in a small compass, and if a well has been assigned her, for a habitation, it is as appropriate from its narrowness, as its depth.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Tags: Charles Caleb Colton


Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Some truths may be proclaimed upon the housetop; others may be spoken by the fireside; still others must be whispered in the ear of a friend.

ROSSITER JOHNSON

"The Whispering Gallery"


He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Tags: John Locke


Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

ANDRE GIDE

So Be It; or, The Chips Are Down

Tags: Andre Gide


Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

Tags: Austin O'Malley


Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

WILL ROGERS

The Illiterate Digest

Tags: Will Rogers


A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

Tags: Mikhail Bakunin


Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought