Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Truth

• Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Memories, Use

• There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Honesty, Men

• Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Lying, Dogma

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Witty, Truth

  Daily News, February 25, 1905.

• Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Fiction, Suits

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

• In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Struggle, Dawn

• You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Passion, Beard

  "Whisker Wars: TV Review" by David Knowles, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 4, 2011.

• Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Truth, Pain

• The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Men, Thinking

• Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Mind, Fiction

  The Club of Queer Trades "The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent" (1905)

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