Truth Quotes - Page 22

• Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

  Martin Luther

  Begging You, Hypocrisy, Wages

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.25

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• Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151

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• And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Dishonesty, Being Lied

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• One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

  John Green

  Memories, Children, Kids

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• It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

  May Sarton

  Inspirational, Enough, Bedrock

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Trust, Forgiveness, Forgiving

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• Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

  Karl Barth

  Lying, Men, Accomplish Nothing

  Karl Barth (2003). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part2: The Election of God; The Command of God”, p.317, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Believe, Reality

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• The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

  Hermann Hesse

  Faces, Millions

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• Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

  Mark Twain

  Fiction, Stranger, Truth Is

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• Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Lying, Ocean, Eye

  "Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture" by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1862.

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• It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Spiritual, Lying, Reason

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

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• Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

  August Kekule

  Love, Dream, Lying

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• Apply Truth liberally to the inflamed area.

  Stephen Colbert

  Areas

  TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 1, 2005), 2005–2015.

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• I scream, you scream, we all scream... for the truth.

  Stephen Colbert

  Scream, X Files, Latin Phrases

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• Warmth is to sun, as truth is to me.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sun, Truth Is, Warmth

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• First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Genius, Literature

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 382, 1833.

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• No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

  Anita Brookner

  Doe, Blame, Confession

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Reality, Truth Is, Correspondence

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2013). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.427, D C Books

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• If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

  Erin Brockovich

  Inspirational, Heart, Believe In Yourself

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• He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

  Henry George

  Asking

  Henry George (1973). “The Land Question: What it Involves, and how Alone it Can be Settled”, New York : AMS Press

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• Let there be truth between us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth Is

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• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Honesty, Lying

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• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Honesty, Iconoclasm, Way

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.117, Reprint Services Corporation

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• If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  "Stray Birds".

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