TRUTH QUOTES XVII

quotations about truth


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An adherence to truth, open and without reservation, has, from the age of chivalry downwards, been considered as one of the loftiest attributes of a "gentleman"; so much so, that, to brand as "a liar" the pretender to such a title, is one of the most deadly insults that you can offer him.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
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The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos


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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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Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

"Stammbuch"

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Were truth our uttered language, Angels might talk with men.

GERALD MASSEY

"The World is Full of Beauty"

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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook C", Aphorisms

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For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Hind and the Panther

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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Winner

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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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Truth was the only daughter of Time.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

A Game of Thrones

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The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

SAUL BELLOW

Herzog


Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The strict conservative says that truth is in danger. It is the idlest fear in the world. It plainly indicates no intimacy with the truth. He who has communed with great principles knows that they are everlasting, and that nothing can shake them from their orbits. He is willing to trust truth in every encounter, knowing it to be eternal and omnipotent.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


Truth is the right hand of God.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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