TRUTH QUOTES XXIV

quotations about truth


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There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

HORACE MANN
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Thoughts


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Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

"Here Be Dragons"

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Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"Truth", Mince Pie

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Truth never was indebted to a lie.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

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You're never going to see the truth. [It's] what you're shooting for always and you always miss it. Every once in a while, you catch an edge of it. That's what's you hope for, I think, as an artist.

SAM SHEPARD

interview, 2005

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Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Journal of Discourses

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The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The truth--a hideous spectacle!

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth Penetrant"

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Truth", Essays


Let us not expect men to see truth before it is shown them; they do not see it afterwards.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

City of Illusions

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Truth is only a question of point of view.

KARL LAGERFELD

Vice Magazine, February 28, 2010

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Truth ... is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.

DONALD BARTHELME

"Rebecca"

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It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

DOROTHY CATHERINE FONTANA

"The Enterprise Incident", Star Trek

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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Kingdom of Fear

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Our feelings often color the truth.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction ... for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

G. K. CHESTERTON

The Club of Queer Trades


Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford