TRUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about truth

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

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Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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The Truth, with a capital T, is what ought to be. Not simply what was, or what is.

JENNIFER LEE CARRELL

Interred With Their Bones

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The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words


All great truths begin as blasphemies.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Annajanska

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For behold, Thou lovest the truth, and he that doth it, cometh to the light.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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The greatest truths are the simplest.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm. Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The Vital Illusion

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Those only who can bear the truth will hear it.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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There are some things that can't be the truth even if they did happen.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Philosophical Occasions

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You have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping.

NICHOLAS BLACK ELK

Black Elk Speaks

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We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.

ARNOLD BENNETT

The Journal of Arnold Bennett

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If man refused to believe those truths which were not made evident to his reason, he could not live among his fellows, nor could he make the slightest progress in civilization.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

IRVIN D. YALOM

When Nietzsche Wept

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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters

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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

AESOP

Fables

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Truth is a gem which will only reflect the rays that come direct from heaven.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust