Truth Is Quotes - Page 9

• Truth is its own defense.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Truth, Defense

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• Almighty Father! let thy lowly child,
  Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,--
  A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled.
  Let him live usefully, and not die old!

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Strong, Prayer, Children

  Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

  Susan Faludi

  Book, Responsibility, Fighting

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• A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

  Edith Hamilton

  Light, Creative, Fossils

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• 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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• It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

  John Tillotson

  Long, Return, Action

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• He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

  John Tillotson

  Journey, Tasks, World

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• Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

  John Tillotson

  Truth, Lying, Men

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• Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

  Alice Miller

  Truth, Healing, Emotional

  Alice Miller (1991). “Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth”, Penguin Press HC, The

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• Truth is not always injured by fiction.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Fiction, Literature, Injured

  Charlotte Lennox (1820). “The female Quixote; or, The adventures of Arabella”, p.261

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• Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Prejudice, Weak, Combat

  Charlotte Lennox (1805). “Henrietta: Embellished with superb engravings”, p.157

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• The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.

  Isabel Paterson

  Believe, Men

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• Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Men, Earth

  Storm Jameson (1922). “The Clash”

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• ... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Littles, Inferiors

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.399, A&C Black

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• Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

  Lucille Kallen

  Truth, People, Laughing

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• The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Truth, Mean, Yield

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• It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

  Angelina Grimke

  Tongue, Pens, Presses

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin

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• Truth is the root of all the charities.

  Orville Dewey

  Truth, Roots, Charity

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• no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

  Winifred Holtby

  Strong, Legends, Defeat

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Owl, Bats, Beast

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• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time.
  [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

  Aulus Gellius

  Daughter, Truth, Names

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• We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Calling, World, Notion

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• the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

  Georgia Harkness

  Truth, Revolutionary, Found

  Georgia Elma Harkness (1949). “The Gospel and Our World”

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• Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Girl, Men, Should Have

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• Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

  Flora Lewis

  Truth, Trying, Substance

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