Truth Quotes - Page 17

• The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Enemy, Weapons

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Grove Day (1991). “Travels in Hawaii”, p.155, University of Hawaii Press

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• The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Want, Firsts, Evidence

  Bart D. Ehrman (2011). “Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

  John Dryden

  Needs, Literature, Faces

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 1, l. 33

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• Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

  Jules Renard

  Power, Shock, Appeals

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• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  Walt Whitman

  Spiritual, Soul, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press

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• Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Honesty, Dignity

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• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Choices, Mind, Repose

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• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Deceit, Half

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

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• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Light

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• The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use, Truth Is, Homage

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• In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mountain, Vain, Climbs

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.129, 谷月社

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• If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

  Isa Blagden

  Lying, Interesting, Leader

  "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.

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• Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

  Horace Mann

  Science, Air, Light

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.38

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• The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

  John Stuart Mill

  Honesty, Men, Triumph

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.172, Hackett Publishing

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Fishes, Humans, Lure

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.6, Knopf

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• You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Witty, Powerful

  Daily News, February 25, 1905.

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• Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Philosophy, Fiction

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Hunting, Errors

  "The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007". Book by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, November 6, 2006.

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• A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

  Tim O'Brien

  Lying, May, Happens

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Wisdom, Quests, Terrible

  Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”

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• No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving, Lasts, Faces

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

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• I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Believe, Science

  George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.338, MIT Press

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• No legacy is so rich as honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Honesty

  1604-5 Mariana to Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 3, sc.5, l.12-13.

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