Quotes About Truth

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all. —SIR

Those who are not of this world can do little else to arrest the errors of the obstinately worldly.

the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

our lives would look much uglier and more bungling than the pictures, if they could be put on the wall.

Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings—much harder than to say something fine about them which is NOT the exact truth.

But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity,— strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness of imagination and intellect, great power of self-control, and a disposition to exert control over others,— prejudices come as the natural food of tendencies which can get no sustenance out of that complex, fragmentary, doubt-provoking knowledge which we call truth.

Speculative truth begins to appear but a shadow of individual minds, agreement between intellects seems unattainable, and we turn to the truth of feeling as the only universal bond of union.

That is a beautiful mysticism - it is a - ' 'Please not to call it by any name,' said Dorothea, putting out her hands entreatingly. 'You will say it is Persian, or something else geographical. It is my life. I have found it out, and cannot part with it.

And all we've got to do is to trusten, Master Marner - to do the right thing as fur as we know and to trusten. For if us as knows so little can see a bit o' good and rights, we may be sure as there's a good and a rights bigger not what we can know - I feel it i' my own inside as it must be so.

Caleb was in a difficulty known to any person attempting in dark times and unassisted by miracle to reason with rustics who are in possession of an undeniable truth which they know through a hard process of feeling, and can let it fall like a giant's club on your neatly carved argument for a social benefit which they do not feel.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

Caleb was in a difficulty known to any person attempting in dark times and unassisted by miracle to reason with rustics who are in possession of an undeniable truth which they know through a hard process of feeling, and can let it fall like a giant's club on your neatly-carved argument for a social benefit which they do not feel.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

The very truth hath a color from the disposition of the utterer.

without being obliged to dress itself in an elaborate costume of knowledge;

Nay, Miss, I'n got to keep count o' the flour an' corn; I can't do wi' knowin' so many things besides my work. That's what brings folks to the gallows,–knowin' everything but what they'n got to get their bread by. An' they're mostly lies, I think, what's printed i' the books: them printed sheets are, anyhow, as the men cry i' the streets.

the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

a terrible scorching light showed him the hidden letters that changed the meaning of the past.

it is art's duty to make us aware of realities which are not our own.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand

the Fallacy of the Stolen Concept. This fallacy, writes Nathaniel Branden, "consists of the act of using a concept while ignoring, contradicting or denying the validity of the concepts on which it logically and genetically depends.

Gossip [is] the Devil's radio: Don't be a broadcaster.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.