TRUTH QUOTES II

quotations about truth

Truth quote

I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth.

HOWARD ZINN

Marx in Soho

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Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

MARTIN LUTHER

Table Talk

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The truth is like a strung-out pimp in the middle of a storm.

ROBERTO BOLAÑO

2666

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'Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan

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Prophecy has always been a tough gig. Ask Jeremiah. Power wants and always forms a compliant priesthood to uphold its dignity and unassailable legitimacy before the people. So someone who really discerns the truth is always a problem for power.

PAUL TYSON

"Adults in the Room, by Yanis Varoufakis", Open Democracy, May 11, 2017


Truthful lips endure forever, the lying tongue, for only a moment.

BIBLE

Proverbs 12:19

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Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

JOHN ARBUTHNOT

An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning

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Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street.

WOLFGANG BORCHERT

The Outsider

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In Washington, D. C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth.

JOE BIDEN

speech to national conference of the National Association of Black Journalists in Washington, D.C., June 20, 2012

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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

GEORGE BERKELEY

Siris

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Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

MARK TWAIN

Mark Twain's Notebooks

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To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

MAXIM GORKY

Untimely Thoughts

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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

The Sign of Four

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Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

STEPHEN KING

The Last Gunslinger

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The fury to unveil the truth, to get at the naked truth, the one which haunts all discourses of interpretation, the obscene rage to uncover the secret, is proportionate to the impossibility of ever achieving this.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The Ecstasy of Communication


There is nothing as boring as the truth.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

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There is no middle ground. What is not true is false.

HENRY F. KLETZING

Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light