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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON TRUTH 4
The discovery of truth is not prevented as much by the current false appearance of things that mislead into error, or by the direct weakness of the reasoning powers, as it is by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, German born medical missionary, theologian, musician, and philosopher)
What is true belongs to me!
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
Lord Shaftesbury (1671-1713, British statesman)
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, "That is the real thing."
Ralph W. Sockman
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-, Russian novelist)
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-, Russian novelist)
Truth is always the strongest argument.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth -- anonymously and posthumously
Thomas Sowell
People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Bruce Springsteen (1949-, American musician, singer, songwriter)
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902, American social reformer and women's suffrage leader)
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902, American social reformer and women's suffrage leader)
To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.
L. Susan Stebbing
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
Han Suyin
What is true is true, and what is false is false...
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772, Swedish mystic and scientist)
If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
Lily Tomlin (1939-, American comedienne)
The best mind-altering drug is truth.
Lily Tomlin (1939-, American comedienne)
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955, American poet)
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.
Lionel Strachey
If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)
Truth does not blush.
Quintus Septimus Tertullianus
Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Esther 3:10
The truth shall set you free.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972, American President (33rd))
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972, American President (33rd))
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972, American President (33rd))
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.
Author Unknown
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Author Unknown
Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.
Author Unknown
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
Author Unknown
If truth takes possession of a man's heart, it will direct his hand to his pocketbook.
Author Unknown
In serving his vision of truth, the artist best serves his nation.
Author Unknown
Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.
Author Unknown
Many a truth is spoke in jest.
Author Unknown
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
Author Unknown
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
Author Unknown
Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.
Author Unknown
Tell the truth and then run.
Author Unknown
The mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.
Frances Wright
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
Author Unknown
The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.
Author Unknown
Time tries truth.
Author Unknown
Truth comes only to a prepared mind.
Author Unknown
Truth fears nothing but concealment.
Author Unknown
Truth is the daughter of time.
Author Unknown
Truth is the greatest gift of life, and love is the exercise of that truth.
Author Unknown
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Author Unknown
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery (1871-1945, French poet, essayist)
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951, Austrian philosopher)
To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.
Hellmut Walters
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.
Lillian Eichler Watson
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan W. Watts (1915-1973, British-born American philosopher, author)
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West (1892-1983, British author)
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, "What is truth?"
Richard Whately (1787-1863, British prelate, writer)
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
Richard Whately (1787-1863, British prelate, writer)
I know that unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.
Betty White
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
Billy Wilder (1906-2002, American film director)
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959, American architect)
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright (1871-1948, American inventor, aviation pioneer, brother of Wilbur Wright)
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952, Indian spiritual author, lecturer)
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
Emile Zola (1840-1902, French novelist)
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Emile Zola (1840-1902, French novelist)
Truth does not contradict truth.
Elizer Zvi Zweifel
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