quotations about truth
Truth rides a long road.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Give me truths;
For I am weary of the surfaces,
And die of inanition.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Blight
The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.
PHILIP MOELLER
Helena's Husband
Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.
ANONYMOUS
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKY
The Lower Depths
When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Table-Talk
Truth is within ourselves.
ROBERT BROWNING
Paracelsus
Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.
DEAN KOONTZ
Forever Odd
Truth is a pillar erected by God, and upholdeth the universe.
JAMES LINEN
"Desultorious Chronicles", The Poetical and Prose Writings of James Linen
Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
City of Illusions
Truth is only a question of point of view.
KARL LAGERFELD
Vice Magazine, February 28, 2010
I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
ANTONIN ARTAUD
Selected Writings
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
JANE AUSTEN
Emma
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Truth", Essays
Truth is the right hand of God.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Celtic Twilight
There's many a true word spoken in jest.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
Truth -- there's no such thing.
TANKRED DORST
Freedom for Clemens