TRUTH QUOTES XXII

quotations about truth


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You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

SATHYA SAI BABA
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Thought for the Day, October 5, 2008


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For decades, critical social scientists and humanists have chipped away at the idea of truth. We've deconstructed facts, insisted that knowledge is situated and denied the existence of objectivity. The bedrock claim of critical philosophy, going back to Kant, is simple: We can never have certain knowledge about the world in its entirety. Claiming to know the truth is therefore a kind of assertion of power.

CASEY WILLIAMS

"Creating Truth is Assertion of Power", Asharq Al-Awsat, April 19, 2017


It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola


It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Notes on Virginia

Tags: Thomas Jefferson


Like the gush of the morning light, truth must go forward.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

Tags: E. H. Chapin


All men need truth as they need water; if wise men are as high grounds where the springs rise, ordinary men are the lower grounds which their waters nourish.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma

Tags: Jane Austen


Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don't have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in -- then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.

ANNE LAMOTT

Bird by Bird

Tags: Anne Lamott


It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Tags: John Locke


Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India, January 8, 1925

Tags: Mahatma Gandhi


Truth is the edict of God.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


One truth teacheth another.

SIR J. REYNOLDS

attributed, Day's Collacon


There is no higher religion than the truth.

HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY

The Essential Works of Helena Blavatsky


Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Tags: Jane Hirshfield


The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

MARCEL PROUST

Within a Budding Grove

Tags: Marcel Proust


Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

attributed, Physics, God, and the End of the World

Tags: Winston Churchill


Give me truths;
For I am weary of the surfaces,
And die of inanition.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Blight

Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson


As the snow before the sun, even so is a polished lie before the naked truth.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Men never make truths; they only recognize the value of this currency of God. They find truths, as men sometimes find bills, in the street, and only recognize the value of that which other persons have drawn.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit