Truth Is Quotes - Page 10

• A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

  Edith Hamilton

  Light, Creative, Fossils

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

  John Tillotson

  Truth, Lying, Men

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• Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

  Alice Miller

  Truth, Healing, Emotional

  Alice Miller (1991). “Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth”, Penguin Press HC, The

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• Truth is not always injured by fiction.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Fiction, Literature, Injured

  Charlotte Lennox (1820). “The female Quixote; or, The adventures of Arabella”, p.261

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• Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Prejudice, Weak, Combat

  Charlotte Lennox (1805). “Henrietta: Embellished with superb engravings”, p.157

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• Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Men, Earth

  Storm Jameson (1922). “The Clash”

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• ... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Littles, Inferiors

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.399, A&C Black

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• The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Truth, Mean, Yield

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• It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

  Angelina Grimke

  Tongue, Pens, Presses

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin

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• The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Owl, Bats, Beast

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• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time.
  [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

  Aulus Gellius

  Daughter, Truth, Names

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• We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Calling, World, Notion

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• the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

  Georgia Harkness

  Truth, Revolutionary, Found

  Georgia Elma Harkness (1949). “The Gospel and Our World”

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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• 70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Rubio Delivers Address on 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'". www.rubio.senate.gov. January 08, 2014.

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• When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

  Nora Ephron

  Sports, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.

  Steven Tyler

  Pain, Believe, Reading

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• Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Wise, Mother, Lying

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it.

  Merrit Malloy

  Truth, Feels

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• Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to enjoy favor with all the people. The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!

  O. S. Hawkins

  Christian, Real, People

  O. S. Hawkins (2005). “Guidestones: ancient landmarks of authenticity for the 21st century church”

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• I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

  Lydia M. Child

  May, Appearance, Goodness

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• The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

  Sara Rue

  Thinking, People, Different

  "Actress Sara Rue talks 'Dorfman in Love,' 'Popular,' 'Malibu Country'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Home, House, Trying

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• Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.

  Tony Kushner

  Lying, Writing, Luxury

  "We Call That Failure Art" by Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2013.

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• For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

  John Brunner

  Impact, Data, Reason

  John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.141, Open Road Media

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