TRUTH QUOTES XVI

quotations about truth


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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

ANN PATCHETT
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Truth and Beauty


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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

ANTONIN ARTAUD

Selected Writings

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But that battered word, truth, having made its appearance here, confronts one immediately with a series of riddles and has, moreover, since so many gospels are preached, the unfortunate tendency to make one belligerent.

JAMES BALDWIN

Notes of a Native Son

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We shall find some things that are true, and some that are new, but very few things that are both true and new.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

R. D. LAING

attributed, R. D. Laing: The Philosophy and Politics of Psychotherapy

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The very Truth has to change its vesture, from time to time; and be born again. But all Lies have sentence of death written down against them, and Heaven's Chancery itself; and, slowly or fast, advance incessantly towards their hour.

THOMAS CARLYLE

The French Revolution: A History

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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Infinite Jest

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The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

DEAN KOONTZ

Forever Odd

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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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It's heartwarming that The New York Times and The Washington Post are troubled that President Trump is loosely throwing around accusations of "fake news." It's nice that they now realize that truth does not reliably come from the mouth of every senior government official or from every official report.

ROBERT PARRY

"Mainstream Media's 'Victimhood'", Consortium News, February 28, 2017


We cannot make things true by any amount of effort; we can merely discover what God has made true from all eternity.

HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS

Re-statements of Christian Doctrine

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Truth -- there's no such thing.

TANKRED DORST

Freedom for Clemens

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The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

FANNY KEMBLE

Further Records, February 8, 1875

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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

WILLIAM JAMES

Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness", The Varieties of Religious Experience

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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The finding of one generation will not serve for the next. It tarnishes rapidly except it be reserved with an ever-renewed spirit of seeking.

ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Science and the Unseen World


Old Time was young, men's hearts were all untried
By Grief and Sin, when round this whirling ball
Pure Truth and Falsehood journeyed side by side
In free companionship. At evenfall
Of that long day which closed the Age of Gold
They came to Pleasure's lake, and both were glad
To cast their robes and seek those waters cold.
But Falsehood, first emerging, lightly clad
Her limbs in Truth's white garments, fresh and fair,
And swiftly fled away with mocking mirth;
While Truth, disdaining Falsehood's tattered wear,
Pursued. So still around the dizzy earth
Flies Falsehood, well-disguised in Truth's array,
While Truth runs after, naked to the day.

ARTHUR GUITERMAN

"Truth and Falsehood"


Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?

CHARLES READE

The Cloister and the Hearth

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It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of spirit should be measured according to how much of the "truth" one could still barely endure--or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil

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