TRUTH QUOTES XI

quotations about truth


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It is dangerous to follow truth too near, lest she should kick out our teeth.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH
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attributed, Day's Collacon


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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India 1924-1926


Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

GIANNINA BRASCHI

Empire of Dreams


There are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Wise Blood


It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Truth is the backbone of character. Nothing is beautiful or strong or permanent without truth. All qualifications that go to make up noble manhood count for naught where there is not a persistent adherence to truthfulness. As the mirror reflects objects as they are, without alteration, so truth presents everything as it is.

HENRY F. KLETZING

"Truth"


The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Parerga and Paralipomena

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Truths kindle light for truths.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


You present the facts and let the people decide whether they want to believe the rumours or go by the facts. Truth is always the best counter.

D.S. HOODA

"In Kashmir, rumours fly faster than truth", The Kashmir Monitor, April 24, 2017


A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Fall

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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

JOHN LOCKE

letter to Anthony Collins, October 30, 1703


He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Truth lies in a small compass, and if a well has been assigned her, for a habitation, it is as appropriate from its narrowness, as its depth.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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In your admiration for truth do not forget that truth can sometimes be as foul as a lie.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought