TRUTH QUOTES
quotations about truth
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"
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?
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
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
The Battle-Field
Great truths are portions of the soul of man.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Sonnet VI
Truth makes all things beautiful.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
What people believe prevails over the truth.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, The Sons of Aleus
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
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
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Liquid Modernity
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
Truth is the backbone of character.
HENRY F. KLETZING
Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light
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
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
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
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
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
EDWARD ABBEY
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness