Truth Quotes - Page 12

• The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

  Paul Tillich

  Passion, Answers, Weight

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.65, U of Nebraska Press

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• The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Dark, Artist

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.8, Bantam

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• The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Believe, People

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• Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

  Daniel Handler

  Knowledge, Mean, Understanding

  "Fictional character: Lemony Snicket". "A Series of Unfortunate Events" ("The Bad Beginning: Part Two"), www.imdb.com. January 13, 2017.

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• It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

  Daniel Handler

  Difficult, Situation, Can Do

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• Not everything that's true needs to be said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Needs, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Honesty, Men, Thrones

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.645, Bantam

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• In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Buddhist, Life Changing, Anger

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• Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

  Theodore Parker

  Ease, Sides

  Theodore Parker (1842). “A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion”, p.309

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• When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Lying, Democracies Have, Libertarian Party

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• In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Learning, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims”, p.69

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• Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Men, May

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1841). “The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized ...”, p.325

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• Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

  John Keats

  Beauty, Philosophy, Creative

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)

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• I am an advocate for awareness, the truth, and a person's right to know. I believe that in the absence of the truth, all of us stand helpless to defend ourselves, our families and our health, which is the greatest gift we have.

  Erin Brockovich

  Believe, Health, Awareness

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• Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Honesty, Heart, Speak

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.116

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• Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

  Donald Sutherland

  Reality, People, Sucker

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• Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

  Antonio Porchia

  Suicide, Few Friends

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Errors, Cellars

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• Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fragments

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

  John Milton

  Strength, Wind, Play

  Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

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• Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

  Maxim Gorky

  Soul, Heal, Wounded

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “The Lower Depths”, p.55, Courier Dover Publications

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• I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Persistence

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• Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Rap, Eye, Giving

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• Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

  Mark Akenside

  Mark Akenside, John Dyer (1855). “The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott”, p.15

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• I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.

  Peter Altenberg

  Heart, Mirrors, Pockets

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