TRUTH QUOTES X

quotations about truth

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Basic Education


The true is Godlike: we do not see it itself; we must guess at it through its manifestations.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


No two things can be so contradictory, so much at variance as truth and falsehood; and yet none are so mixed and united.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

EPICTETUS

Fragments

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But thou, my son, study to make prevail
One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Merope

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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India 1924-1926


Truth, though hewn like the mangled form of Osiris into a thousand pieces, and scattered to the four winds, shall be gathered limb to limb, and moulded with every joint and member into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Truth shines more brightly the more widely it is diffused.

JOHN WYCLIFFE

attributed, Day's Collacon


There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

ANAÏS NIN

diary, Fall 1943

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The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

MARILYN MONROE

diary, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

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Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Guilty Pleasures


Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its seed. Having found the seed let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Whenever it may come, whithersoever it may blow, it will be able to germinate.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

The Forerunners

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Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

PHILIP K. DICK

A Scanner Darkly

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Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

L'Envoi

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Truths kindle light for truths.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

Musashi

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So stands Truth before worshipping man; and so she speaks to him. Truth shrouded in mystery; clothed in light; transcending our power to look upon her full and ample proportions. No man has seen her altogether as she is. Yet many a soul, gazing earnestly, reverently, has beheld the outlines; caught here and there a lineament, a feature; has seen that, when the veil has for a moment been parted, which has excited and enraptured him, and of which he has sought to speak to others. And they have, perhaps gladly, perhaps incredulously, listened to his report. No one has ever seen the whole of Truth. And because of that, and of the imperfection of the eyes which have looked, and of the words in which they have reported, the fragmentary reports men have brought back of what they have seen have been so various and seemed so contradictory. But it does not follow, because human philosophies, sciences, theologies, which are these reports, have been so various and fleeting--it does not follow that there is no reality; but only that men have had imperfect and fragmentary vision of the reality; and made imperfect and fragmentary report of it.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW

"Truth"


Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance