Truth Quotes And Sayings

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“Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.”
– Christopher Morley

“The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.”
– Chuck Colson

“Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.”
– Chuck Swindoll

“It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.”
– Cs Lewis

“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 the mainstream.”
– Cyril Connolly

“The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.”
– Dean Koontz

“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 that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.”
– E. H. Chapin

“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
– Edgar Watson Howe

“Truth is both arms and armour.”
– Edward Counsel

“Truth makes all things beautiful.”
– Edward Counsel

“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

“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”
– Eugene O’Neill

“They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.”
– Fanny Kemble

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
– Flannery O’Connor

“Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of spirit should be measured according to how much of the “truth” one could still barely endure–or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble.”
– Gary Amirault

“The best defense of the Truth is just to tell it, rather than to spend a lot of time refuting error.”
– Gary Amirault

“The Truth is illusive because we prefer lies.”
– Gary Amirault

“To some the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead.”
– Gary Amirault

“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“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 into sound.”
– George Eliot

“The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.”
– George Eliot

“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
– George Eliot

“Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.”
– George Macdonald

“Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.”
– George Macdonald

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ”
– George Orwell

“To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.”
– George Orwell

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