TRUTH QUOTES

quotations about truth

Truth quote

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

attributed, The Washington Year Book: Maxims and Morals of "the Father of His Country"

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

EMILE ZOLA

attributed, Dreyfus: His Life and Letters?

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Rather let us suffer for speaking the truth, than that truth should suffer for want of speaking.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Truth makes all things beautiful.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The Canterbury Tales

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Great truths are portions of the soul of man.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Sonnet VI

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Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

The Battle-Field

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Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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What people believe prevails over the truth.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, The Sons of Aleus

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Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true ... written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us ... vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called ... re-membered ... re-cognized ... as that which is already inside us.

DAN BROWN

The Lost Symbol


The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

Liquid Modernity

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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

ANAÏS NIN

diary, November 1933

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Truth is the backbone of character.

HENRY F. KLETZING

Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light


You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

GEORGE HARRISON

The Beatles Anthology

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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

EDWARD ABBEY

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

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Truth will only make you unpopular.

WOLFGANG BORCHERT

The Outsider


Truth is that which is; it is nameless. And so, the mind cannot approach it.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

"What was true yesterday is not true today", New Indian Express, March 2, 2017

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