TRUTH QUOTES XXVI

quotations about truth


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To take thought, to take truth, and translate them into life--that is the hard, hard battle.

REUEN THOMAS
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Thoughts for the Thoughtful


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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

ROBERT FROST

"The Black Cottage"

Tags: Robert Frost


The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

A Universe from Nothing

Tags: Lawrence M. Krauss


"Truth will prevail." It may be true; but some people, I believe, think her a very slow worker; and little will the satisfaction of her prevailing be to you, if you happen to be ruined in your reputation or fortune while she is at work.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

MAXIM GORKY

The Lower Depths

Tags: Maxim Gorky


It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to everyone.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


There are truths so prosaic, so dense, so dull, that one can hardly state them without suggesting the idea of something subtler or more interesting beyond.

LORD ACTON

letter to Mary Gladstone, June 9, 1880

Tags: Lord Acton


Veracity is not a stagnant feature of ideas, so the status of truth is always questionable.

TOMAS CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC

"Truth in the digital age: Blame people (not algorithms) for the filter bubble", Huffington Post, March 19, 2017


Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

DAN BROWN

The Lost Symbol

Tags: Dan Brown


The sun of truth strikes each part of the earth at a little different angle.

HAMLIN GARLAND

Crumbling Idols


Supreme truths are the foundation on which repose the state of human society.

POPE LEO XIII

attributed, Day's Collacon


Call it what you want: relativism, constructivism, deconstruction, postmodernism, critique. The idea is the same: Truth is not found, but made, and making truth means exercising power.

CASEY WILLIAMS

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


As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

BROCK YATES

"Even the Cops Liked the Cannonball", Car and Driver, November 2002

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Whatever of truth or approximation to truth we have attained, we must hold to it with tenacity and assurance as the truth for us and for the time; must hold to it to live and die by. It seems to me that this fidelity to the conviction of the hour, truth will not dispense with. If a man holds faintly and indecisively to what of truth he has attained, I do not see how he can gain any more beyond. Nevertheless, we must hold it in readiness to give it up the hour that a new or larger truth is revealed. For truth in our minds, our vision of it, is not a finality, but a march. And the moment the word is given, we must strike our tent, without a sigh.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW

Essays and Sermons


Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place -- and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all -- so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

IAIN M. BANKS

Inversions

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Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


He who clips away a little truth, and puts in a patch of falsehood to make measure, is likely to become a skilful manufacturer of lies.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth

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Nothing endures except truth.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Blind Assassin

Tags: Margaret Atwood


Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

GEORGE ELIOT

Armgart

Tags: George Eliot