Truth Is Quotes - Page 9

• Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith, and thy understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge; understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand; understanding is the wages of a lively faith and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance.

  Francis Quarles

  Mother, Believe, Humble

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.31

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• Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Cynical, Easy

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• The truth of truths is love.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Truth, Truth Love

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.228

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• Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, People, Taste

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 26, 2015

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• Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Truth, Done, Impossible

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Darkness and day”

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• We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

  Agnes Repplier

  Friendship, Had Enough, Firsts

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• Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

  Jeremy Collier

  Truth, Promise, Band

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• Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mother, Nursing, Genius

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.301

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• One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Sex, Views, People

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• truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Truth, Firsts, Casualties

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• Truth is, right now two bombs could drop out of the sky and blow up this house and whatever building you're in and just obliterate Dischord and Pitchfork. And there'll be some people crying, there'll be some slow singing, but for 99% of the world, it won't even affect the fly on their soup. Most of the world never have, or ever will hear of me, Fugazi, or Pitchfork. Right now, someone just got killed in Ukraine. Do you feel any different?

  Ian MacKaye

  Blow, People, House

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• I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

  Denis Diderot

  Silence, Important, Matter

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• Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

  Anne Lamott

  Truth, Moral, Revolutionary

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• Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Synthesis, Kingdoms

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

  Sally Mann

  Thinking, Trying, Layers

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• The outcome that we wish suddenly manifests itself in our reality, and the truth is, none of those things suddenly appeared. It is we who have suddenly appeared on the scene where they existed always.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Reality, Wish, Outcomes

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• Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

  Dave Barry

  Food, School, Years

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Ideas, Revolutionary, Rejected

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I'd like people to like me. I think most of my friends like me! I'm real and I get in trouble for speaking my mind. I will definitely tell you the truth because I have to. I get in trouble that way.

  Keith Michael

  Real, Thinking, Speaking My Mind

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Lying, Reality, Stories

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• Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Individual

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• Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.

  Stevie Smith

  People, May, Fancy

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• Almighty Father! let thy lowly child,
  Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,--
  A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled.
  Let him live usefully, and not die old!

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Strong, Prayer, Children

  Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

  John Tillotson

  Long, Return, Action

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• He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

  John Tillotson

  Journey, Tasks, World

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