TRUTH QUOTES XIII

quotations about truth


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We are not, however, to judge of a truth beforehand by the fruit which we think it will produce. It is the truth which makes free, not any kind of error. It is the truth which sanctifies men, not any kind of falsehood. All truth is safe. All error is dangerous. It is only the truth that the minister is to use. He is never to say, "This is the philosophy that my people are used to and this is the philosophy that I think will do better service, and so, though I do not believe it, I will preach it." Never! It is only the truth he is to use, but he is always to use the truth. Truth is always an instrument.

LYMAN ABBOTT
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Seeking After God


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Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"Truth Will Have No Other Gods Alongside It"

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In your admiration for truth do not forget that truth can sometimes be as foul as a lie.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

FRANCIS BACON

Novum Organum


There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

PHILIP ROTH

The Human Stain

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Truth is a point of view about things.

MARCEL PROUST

attributed, Empire Star

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

MARK TWAIN

Following the Equator

Tags: Mark Twain


I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

letter to George E. Pickett, February 22, 1841

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Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

MAXIM GORKY

The Lower Depths

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Truth is death to the portrait painter.

FRANCIS A. DURIVAGE

"The Career of an Artist"

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Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defence of it.

JOHN LOCKE

The Reasonableness of Christianity


There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right;
Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Caelestis"

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Truth never changes.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


You know the truth, the brick-hard, irregular, slithery surface of truth.

PHILIP K. DICK

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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You present the facts and let the people decide whether they want to believe the rumours or go by the facts. Truth is always the best counter.

D.S. HOODA

"In Kashmir, rumours fly faster than truth", The Kashmir Monitor, April 24, 2017


A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

OSCAR WILDE

The Nightingale and the Rose

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There is no religion higher than the truth.

MARK FROST

The List of Seven

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Truth is, whatever may be said to the contrary, superior to all fictions. One ought never to regret seeing clearer into the depths.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays