TRUTH QUOTES XXII

quotations about truth

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulent as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Education and time may improve and augment the uses of truth, but cannot alter the structure, which is ever the same--as proceeding from the Eternal.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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As the snow before the sun, even so is a polished lie before the naked truth.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn't make it worse to have it said out loud.

STEPHENIE MEYER

The Host

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Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

SATHYA SAI BABA

Thought for the Day, October 5, 2008


A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

POPE BENEDICT XVI

Address to the International Diplomats, March 18, 2006


There are truths so prosaic, so dense, so dull, that one can hardly state them without suggesting the idea of something subtler or more interesting beyond.

LORD ACTON

letter to Mary Gladstone, June 9, 1880

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Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

POPE BENEDICT XVI

Encyclical Letter, Caritas in Veritate, June 29, 2009


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

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The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.

PHILIP MOELLER

Helena's Husband

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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

KINGSLEY AMIS

Lucky Jim

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History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

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To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

The Master and Margarita


There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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