Truth Quotes - Page 5

• When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

  Rumi

  Stories, Disease, Increase

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

  Dogen

  Spiritual, Art, Yoga

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• Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

  Wallace Stevens

  Lakes, Hiking, Environment

  "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction". Poem by Wallace Stevens, 1942.

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• The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

  Herbert Agar

  Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

  Time for Greatness (1942) ch. 7

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• To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

  Maxim Gorky

  Art, Class, Groups

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• Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

  Francis Bacon

  Dog, Errors, Brain

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• It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Reality

  "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" (1892).

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• The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

  Susan Sontag

  Lying, Opposites, Balance

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• The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Race, Lied

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

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• Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Mind, Penetrate, Unwilling

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• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.112

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• An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Funny, Mistake, Lying

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• Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Honesty

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

  Arthur Balfour

  Moving, World, Enthusiasm

  Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7

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• Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Guilt, Rewards, Doe

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• A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Passion, Cost

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• History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Humility, Fate, Superstitions

  "The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' " (1880)

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• It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

  John Locke

  Education, Philosophical, Science

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 4, ch. 7, sec. 11 (1690)

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• Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "crire"

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• I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

  S. E. Hinton

  Lying, Believe, Lie To Me

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.104, Penguin

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• There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

  Agnes Repplier

  Naked, Nudity

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

  William C. Bryant

  Wisdom, Honesty, Energy

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Battle-Field”

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• We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Reality, Shapes, Betrayed

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• There's many a true word spoken in jest.

  James Joyce

  Jest, True Words

  James Joyce, Mark Gaipa, Sean Latham, Robert Scholes (2015). “The Little Review "Ulysses"”, p.292, Yale University Press

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