Quotes About Truth

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change.

The truth is not delicate; it will stand up to vigorous testing.

If we grabbed a materialist by the throat and squeezed very hard so he could not breathe, would it prove to his lungs that there is no such thing as air without a throat?

Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?

Nature admits no lie.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Be not a slave of words.

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment—with the answer, No effects.

History a distillation of rumor.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

History, a distillation of rumour.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.

Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!