Truth Quotes - Page 13

• Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Love Is, Hypocrisy, And Love

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “On Being a Leader for God”, p.39, Baker Books

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

  Joseph Granville

  7 Copy quote

• Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .

  Karl Popper

  Principles, Logical, Tautology

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.5, Routledge

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.

  Peter Altenberg

  Heart, Mirrors, Pockets

  9 Copy quote

• There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Source

  7 Copy quote

• My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

  Antonio Porchia

  Long, Lasts, Mines

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sea, Departed, Special

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  People, Despise, Platitudes

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Law, Long

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

  Dogen

  Sitting, Gateways, Liberation

  18 Copy quote

• For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

  William Blake

  Hair, Dust, Tears

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.686, Pearson Education

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Listening, Murmuring, Subconscious

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Running, Reality, Men

  Robinson Jeffers, “The Silent Shepherds”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wall, Men, Beats

  1936 'An Acre of Grass', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mind, Boundless, Universe

  'The Two Voices' (1842) st. 9

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is truth the poet sings . . .

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Poet

  7 Copy quote

• The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Witty, Philosophical, Math

  7 Copy quote

• Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

  Mark Akenside

  Mark Akenside, John Dyer (1855). “The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott”, p.15

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

  William Cowper

  Lying, Judgement, Judgment

  William Cowper (1805). “Poems”, p.93

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Stories, Narrative, Following

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.217, University of Georgia Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• . . . the enemy of righteousness also works in little steps, so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only about yourself and how great you are. Just as truth is given to us line upon line and the light brightens slowly as we obey, even so, as we disobey our testimony of truth lessens almost imperceptibly, little by little, and darkness descends so slowly that the proud may easily deny that anything is changing.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Thinking, Light, Darkness

  7 Copy quote

• The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

  Susan Howatch

  Sound, Advantage, Convincing

  FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from May 12, 2015

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

  Tom Stoppard

  Truth And Falsehood, Falsehood

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “The Invention of Love”, p.35, Faber & Faber

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

  Ivan Panin

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

  755 Copy quote

• Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Easy, Difficult

  7 Copy quote