Truth Quotes - Page 17

• The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Enemy, Weapons

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Grove Day (1991). “Travels in Hawaii”, p.155, University of Hawaii Press

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• The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Want, Firsts, Evidence

  Bart D. Ehrman (2011). “Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

  John Dryden

  Needs, Literature, Faces

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 1, l. 33

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• Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

  Jules Renard

  Power, Shock, Appeals

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• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  Walt Whitman

  Spiritual, Soul, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press

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• Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Honesty, Dignity

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• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Choices, Mind, Repose

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• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Deceit, Half

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

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• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Light

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• The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use, Truth Is, Homage

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• If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

  Isa Blagden

  Lying, Interesting, Leader

  "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.

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• Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

  Horace Mann

  Science, Air, Light

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.38

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• The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

  John Stuart Mill

  Honesty, Men, Triumph

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.172, Hackett Publishing

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• In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mountain, Vain, Climbs

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.129, 谷月社

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Fishes, Humans, Lure

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.6, Knopf

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• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Hunting, Errors

  "The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007". Book by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, November 6, 2006.

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• Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Wisdom, Quests, Terrible

  Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”

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• Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Long, Mind, Pausing

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• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  Stephen King

  Love, Friendship, Fake People

  "The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Yoga

  Speech in Holland, 3 Aug. 1929, in Lilly Heber Krishnamurti (1931) ch. 2

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• The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

  Charles Lamb

  Latitude And Longitude, Tales, Absolutes

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.181

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• All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

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• It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Terrible, Interest

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.52, Heinemann

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