Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Truth, Halloween, Believe

• In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Dream, Lonely

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1853). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.105

• Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Truth, Philosophy, Irrelevance

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.213, University of Illinois Press

• The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Truth, Greater, Written

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1322, Library of America

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