Truth Is Quotes - Page 7

• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Errors, Politics, Weapons

  "A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom" (1779)

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• Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Essence, Finals, Poetic

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?

  Beverly Sills

  Work, Passion, Simple

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• Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.

  Epictetus

  Truth, Giving, Justice

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Truth is always straightforward.

  Sophocles

  Truth, Straightforward

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• Truth is one;
  And, in all lands beneath the sun,
  Whoso hath eyes to see may see
  The tokens of its unity.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Eye, Land

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.342

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• The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.

  Ellen Goodman

  Change, Games, Feelings

  Ellen Goodman (1979). “Turning Points”, Doubleday Books

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• In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?

  Judith Martin

  Children, Honesty, Thinking

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Friendship, Truth, Hate

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Bingo”, p.340, Bantam

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• Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith, and thy understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge; understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand; understanding is the wages of a lively faith and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance.

  Francis Quarles

  Mother, Believe, Humble

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.31

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• Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Cynical, Easy

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Soil, Common

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• The truth of truths is love.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Truth, Truth Love

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.228

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• Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, People, Taste

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 26, 2015

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• The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They were the people of The Book in the truest sense of the word. They knew of no greater joy than the study of man and human relations, which they called Torah, Talmud, Mussar, Cabala.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Book, Ghetto, Men

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Truth, Done, Impossible

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Darkness and day”

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• We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

  Agnes Repplier

  Friendship, Had Enough, Firsts

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• The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Land, Drivers, Hard

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

  Simone Weil

  Teaching, Should Have, Training

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.120, Psychology Press

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• If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

  Karl Kraus

  Doe, Paper, Information

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• Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

  Jeremy Collier

  Truth, Promise, Band

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• Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mother, Nursing, Genius

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.301

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• Truth is the first of jewels.

  Margaret Fuller

  Truth, Jewels, Firsts

  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (2001). “My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller”, p.219, Cornell University Press

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• One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Sex, Views, People

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