Veracity Quotes

• Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Doe, Intention, Communicate

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). “Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.157, Princeton University Press

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• The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sweet, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.615, Library of America

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• Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hope, Liars, Lying

  Speech, 1892.

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• Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

  Sissela Bok

  Integrity, Foundation, Resources

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.301, Vintage

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• Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

  Socrates

  Integrity, Humility, Vanity

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• Veracity is the heart of morality.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Honesty, Heart

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

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• They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

  William Faulkner

  Liars, Lying, Men

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Good Man, Earth

  1850 Representative Men,'Uses of Great Men'.

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• Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

  John Calvin

  Persuasion, Certain, Benevolence

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.501, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Only a work democracy can create the foundation of genuine freedom. Long experience in sociological disputes leads me to expect that a great many people will take offense at the disclosure of this miscalculation. It makes the highest demands on people's will to veracity; it puts a heavy burden on everyday living; it places all social responsibility on those who work, be it in the factory, in the office, on the farm, in the laboratory, or wherever.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Responsibility, Long, People

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Honesty, Anger

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.228, Hamilton Books

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• The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

  Margaret Mitchell

  Liars, Honor, Coward

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.142, Hamilton Books

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• The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

  Roger Mudd

  Government, Tone, Disbelief

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• The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Rumor, Scarcity, Lasts

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.

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• One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

  Helen Keller

  Years, Soul, Feelings

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.142, NYU Press

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• Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Truth, Letters, Spirit

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• No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Doe, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.261, Penguin

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• I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

  Roy DeCarava

  Thinking, Technique, Doe

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• Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

  Hafez

  Children, Honesty, Compassion

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• "O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better of his veracity.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Passion, Looks

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.270

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• The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

  Deena Metzger

  Political, World, Language

  Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Existence

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• Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.

  Skip Prosser

  Moving, Player, Thinking

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• As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

  Mary Karr

  Strive

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• The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.

  Martha Rosler

  Couple, Hands, Computer

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