Truth Quotes - Page 36

• No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Objectivity, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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• When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

  A. M. Rosenthal

  Lying, Silence, Important

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• Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

  Pope John XXIII

  Silence, May, Prudent

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• It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Silence, Silent, Seekers

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.204, Vintage

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• For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Trust, Girly, Lying

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• Truth is a great flirt.

  Franz Liszt

  Flirty, Flirting, Truth Is

  Franz Liszt (1979). “The Letters of Franz Liszt to Olga Von Meyendorff, 1871-1886, in the Mildred Bliss Collection at Dumbarton Oaks”, p.427, Dumbarton Oaks

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• Truth is the daughter of time.

  Aulus Gellius

  Life, Daughter, Truth Is

  Aulus Gellius (1795). “The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius”, p.358

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• Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath. What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?

  Lewis Thomas

  Lying, Real, Flower

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.

  Tom Robbins

  Religious, Ambition, Political

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.210, Bantam

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• The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

  Byron Katie

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Positivity

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• I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Inspirational, Funny, Mind

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• The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Writing, Greatness

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• This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Poverty, Truth Is

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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• Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Country, Adventure

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• By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Flower, Mean

  Yukio Mishima (1966). “Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

  Rumi

  Philosophy, Heart, Trouble

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.150, Shambhala Publications

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• There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

  O. Henry

  Honesty, Lines, May

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.2395, ShandonPress

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• If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, Interesting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

  John Donne

  Honesty, Alcohol, Excess

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• Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Honesty, Philosopher, Logic

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Care, Hares

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.120

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• Veracity is the heart of morality.

  Thomas Huxley

  Honesty, Heart, Morality

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Men, Thinking

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.547

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• An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Motivational, Honesty, Character

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.550, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Success, Honesty

  House in Paris (1935) pt. 1, ch. 5

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