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Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.
DAN BROWN, The Lost Symbol
Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Table-Talk
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
You know the truth, the brick-hard, irregular, slithery surface of truth.
PHILIP K. DICK, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit;
- Swifter than arrows, the light of the truth.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, "The Nun of Nidaros", Tales of a Wayside Inn
Each truth helps on the discovery of another.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Nothing endures except truth.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
The usefulest truths are the plainest.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.
CASSANDRA CLARE, City of Ashes
When the love of truth rules in the heart, the light of truth will guide the practice.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
In all debates, let Truth be thy aim, not Victory.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
- Old Time was young, men's hearts were all untried
- By Grief and Sin, when round this whirling ball
- Pure Truth and Falsehood journeyed side by side
- In free companionship. At evenfall
- Of that long day which closed the Age of Gold
- They came to Pleasure's lake, and both were glad
- To cast their robes and seek those waters cold.
- But Falsehood, first emerging, lightly clad
- Her limbs in Truth's white garments, fresh and fair,
- And swiftly fled away with mocking mirth;
- While Truth, disdaining Falsehood's tattered wear,
- Pursued. So still around the dizzy earth
- Flies Falsehood, well-disguised in Truth's array,
- While Truth runs after, naked to the day.
ARTHUR GUITERMAN, "Truth and Falsehood"
'Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of Truth.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Condemn not truth for error's deeds.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN, "Flowers and Weeds"
Those only who can bear the truth will hear it.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
The nearer we approach to the God of Truth, the farther we are from the danger of Error.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The truth is like a strung-out pimp in the middle of a storm.
We must not put Truth into the place of a means, but into the place of an end.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Truth is a point of view about things.
MARCEL PROUST, attributed, Empire Star
No man is convinced of truth by another's falling into passion, but rather suspects error and design.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN, The Future of the Theater
Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Guilty Pleasures
The truth is always multiplex.
SAMUEL R. DELANY, Empire Star
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
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
FRANK HERBERT, God Emperor of Dune
Fairer than all fancies is the truth.
CAROLINE SPENCER, "A Vigil"
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.
ANAIS NIN, diary, Nov. 1933
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