Post #23 TRUTH Quotes 2011

Truthseeker 2011   TRUTH QUOTES

‘Tis strange — but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. LORD BYRON, Don Juan Truth never lost ground by enquiry. WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. GEOFFREY CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Sign of Four To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober. EUGENE O’NEILL, The Iceman Cometh 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 Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light. GEORGE WASHINGTON Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so. MARK TWAIN, Mark Twain’s Notebooks What people believe prevails over the truth. SOPHOCLES, The Sons of Aleus [fragment] Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags. AUSTIN O’MALLEY, Keystones of Thought 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 Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments. HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici Truth crushed to earth shall rise again. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, The Battle-Field Tell all the Truth but tell it slant– Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise. EMILY DICKINSON, Tell all the Truth but tell it slant– They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it. FANNY KEMBLE, Further Records, Feb. 8, 1875 In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Familiar Letters Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it’s embarrassing to meet her on the street. WOLFGANG BORCHERT, The Outsider Personally, I don’t give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind. LUIGI PIRANDELLO, It Is So! (If You Think So) Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. ROBERT FROST, “The Black Cottage” Human truth is always soiled with falsehood. AUSTIN O’MALLEY, Keystones of Thought All great truths begin as blasphemies. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Annajanska Truth never hurts the teller. ROBERT BROWNING, Fifine at the Fair Truth will only make you unpopular. WOLFGANG BORCHERT, The Outsider Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica I never saw any good that came of telling truth. JOHN DRYDEN, Amphitryon Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. GEORGE ELIOT, Armgart Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul. MAXIM GORKY, The Lower Depths A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. WILLIAM BLAKE, Auguries of Innocence The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, Parerga and Paralipomena A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough. AUSTIN O’MALLEY, Keystones of Thought Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her. MARK AKENSIDE, The Pleasures of Imagination It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love. JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, Think on These Things Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, “Truth Will Have No Other Gods Alongside It” How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in truth! SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Rex Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. LILLIAN HELLMAN, The Little Foxes In a free society, there comes a time when the truth — however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say — must be told. AL GORE, fundraising letter, May 2006 Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed. HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. MATTHEW ARNOLD, Sohrab and Rustum Truth — there’s no such thing. TANKRED DORST, Freedom for Clemens Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. STEPHEN KING, The Last Gunslinger There is truth and falsehood in a comma. TOM STOPPARD, The Invention of Love The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. MAX BORN, as quoted in Judith Sherven’s The New Intimacy Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. ROBERT M. PIRSIG, Lila And diff’ring judgments serve but to declare That truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where. WILLIAM COWPER, Hope It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound. GEORGE ELIOT, Romola 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 The truth … is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution. J. K. ROWLING, The Sorcerer’s Stone Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty– Her throne is in heaven above. ARDELIA COTTON BARTON, Thoughts Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ALBERT EINSTEIN, Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer. GEORGE ELIOT, Felix Holt Not everything that’s true needs to be said. CASSANDRA CLARE, City of Bones 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 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 Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition. E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words Truth … Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment. STEPHEN CRANE, The Black Riders and Other Lines 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 Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth, than to refine themselves. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep. AUSTIN O’MALLEY, Keystones of Thought Truth is both arms and armour. EDWARD COUNSEL, Maxims Truth is within ourselves. ROBERT BROWNING, Paracelsus I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, “The fit is momentary.” KEN KESEY, Sometimes a Great Notion The mind’s eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body’s for that of the sun. FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters, and Reflections Truth makes all things beautiful. EDWARD COUNSEL, Maxims Were truth our uttered language, Angels might talk with men.