Truth Quotes

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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that… — Thomas Carlyle
A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines,… — Frederic Farrar
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. — Antonio Porchia
In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to… — Al Gore
A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough. — Austin O'Malley
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood. — Austin O'Malley
Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in… — Austin O'Malley
Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep. — Austin O'Malley
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in… — Charles Caleb Colton
The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is… — Cyril Connolly
Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it. — Fanny Kemble
The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to… — John Bunyan
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born… — George Eliot
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer. — George Eliot
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin. — Henry David Thoreau
Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed. — Henry Ward Beecher
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth. — Henry Ward Beecher
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments. — Henry Ward Beecher
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with… — Horace Mann
There's many a true word spoken in jest. — James Joyce
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to… — James Russell Lowell
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to… — Jane Hirshfield
If truth is the lure, humans are fishes. — Jane Hirshfield

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