TRUTH QUOTES XX

quotations about truth


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If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY
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Keystones of Thought


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I do not think that so much harm is done by giving error to a child, as by giving truth in a lifeless form.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts

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I tried to put a bird in a cage.
O fool that I am!
For the bird was Truth.
Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put
Truth in a cage!

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

The Fool's Song

Tags: William Carlos Williams


TRUTH, such as it appears to us, can only be relative, because we ourselves, being relative creatures, have only a relative perception and judgment. We appreciate that which is true to ourselves, not that which is universally true. And truth may well assume an aspect to one different from that it assumes to another.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"Be Angry at the Sun"

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Truth is within ourselves.

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus


Truth sometimes tastes like medicine, but that is an evidence that we are ill.

JOSEPH VON METZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


Truth is a pillar erected by God, and upholdeth the universe.

JAMES LINEN

"Desultorious Chronicles", The Poetical and Prose Writings of James Linen


You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

JAMES BRANCH CABELL

The Cream of the Jest

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But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

North and South

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Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

speech in the House of Commons, May 17, 1916

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

letter to Elizabeth Pelham, January 4, 1939

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Man is here to search for truth, and to search until he finds it. And he will enjoy it all the more that he has had to search for it.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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Truth is always new, therefore timeless. What was truth yesterday is not truth today, what Truth is truth today is not truth tomorrow: truth has no continuity. It is the mind which wants to make the experience which it calls truth continuous, and such a mind shall not know truth.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

"What was true yesterday is not true today", The New Indian Express, March 2, 2017

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Truth is too precious a commodity to be wasted upon mere idolators.

HERNANDEZ CORTEZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


Thorough truthfulness--truthfulness to others and to ourselves--is a rare virtue; and he who indeed acts upon it is the noblest of all heroes.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


When the love of truth rules in the heart, the light of truth will guide the practice.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

ANONYMOUS


Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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