Harriet Martineau Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

  Harriet Martineau

  Truth, Suppression, Diffusion

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.147

• influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

  Harriet Martineau

  Truth, Sides, Morality

  Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.187

• Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when.

  Harriet Martineau

  Brother, Truth, Medicine

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