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“Truth-saying or truth-bearing is the very nature of language.”
Gémino H. Abad (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When one speaks the truth, one must not regret having spoken it: the truth is always enlightening.”
Aldo Moro (1916–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The truth is indeed pure that if one were to admit a mixture of other things she would no longer be truth.”
Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (1566–1607) said by 1607 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Courage is choosing the truth and to stand for it, even if it isn’t popular, because in the end, the truth shall make you free.”
Meaza Mohammed wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writers are witnesses to the truth. Know your truth and be truthful to it in your art”
Sabata-Mpho Mokae wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.”
Harry Allen Overstreet (1875–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God listens to the cries of the unfortunate and will one day do justice. Rest assured. The authorities must act, the administrative and judicial authorities, in particular, I call on to tell the truth about what happened. A truth that should not be hidden or manipulated. Without justice, we cannot achieve peace.”
Miguel Ángel Sebastián Martínez (born 1950) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After clashes between shepherds and farmers: Bishop of Sarh calls for justice and solidarity with victims (24 September 2022) Fides News Agency
“The poet Sir Philip Sidney stated in An Apologie for Poetry in 1595: ‘the historian … authorizing himself upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon hearsay, has much ado to pick truth out of partiality.’ This neatly sums up the difficulty faced by modern historians in trying to untangle possible bias and half-truth from history based on historical literature or memoir.”
Sean Cunningham (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business, as if nothing happened.”
Winston Churchill (disputed) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in, but without a documented source: Joseph Romanella (2012): Adam's Dream: Is Everything We Think, Believe, and Perceive Real—or Is It All Imaginary?, page xxx. ISBN: 978-1-4525-0823-8 (sc). ISBN: 978-1-4525-…
“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
Carl Sagan (misattributed) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be." — P. C. Hodgell, in her 1994 novel Seeker's Mask.
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
Aldous Huxley (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All truth is God's truth.”
Augustine of Hippo (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.”
Sophie Swetchine (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.”
William Howard Taft (attributed) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Henry Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft.
“The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man keeps looking for a truth to fit his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.”
Werner Erhard (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I say, if death is the penalty for proclaiming truth, then I will proudly and defiantly pay the costly price! Truth crucified in Socrates, in Christ, in Giordano Bruno, in Huss, Galileo still lives -- they and others whose number is legion have preceded us on this path. We are ready to follow!”
August Spies (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The spirit manifests itself to a warrior at every turn. However, this is not the entire truth. The entire truth is that the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
John Keats (1795–1821) said by 1821 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Believers should always speak with grace, We should always speak with a spirit of love without compromising truth. But we always start with truth because that's God's perspective. We want to make biblical points, which should always be done with the spirit of humility, grace, and love.”
Tony Evans (pastor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today people live to work rather than work for a living. They have forgotten their true goal in life. Subsequently they have forgotten their dharma. There is no communication between hearts, there is no sharing. Having lost contact with other's hearts, we become totally isolated. But in truth we are not isolated islands, we are links that form one chain.”
Mata Amritanandamayi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society.”
Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“KNOWING YOURSELF means being able to separate the true from the false in yourself - love from emotion, joy from sentiment, Will from desire. No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being.”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hearsay that lieutenant general Manvel Grigoryan and lieutenant general Gagik Melkonyan support Levon Ter-Petrosyan does not correspond to the truth. These statements are absolutely false. All Deputies to the Defense Minister are performing their duties. The army doesn't deal with politics. We obey the orders of the Supreme Commander. Dreams of the opposition will never come true.”
Mikael Harutyunyan (born 1946) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in article "Mikael Harutyunyan: no one will involve army in political processes." panarmenian.net [February 23, 2008]
“Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would'st reach! It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech.Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.”
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Be True," from Hymns of Faith and Hope (1867)
“It began to dawn on me that although fiction was undoubtedly fictitious it could also be true or false, not with the truth or falsehood of a news item but as to its disinterestedness, its intention, its integrity.”
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“. . . there is only one authority. . . that is the authority which truth itself possesses when it is perceived to be true by the individual concerned. . . the alternative procedure, the delegation to external authority, must itself follow an individual’s subjective decision.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.”
Franz Bardon (1909–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.”
Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880) first seen 1809 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Euler's identity, e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0. \,\! as quoted in notes by W. E. Byerly, published in Benjamin Peirce, 1809-1880: Biographical Sketch and Bibliography (1925) by R. C. Archibald; also in Mathematics and the Imagi…
“She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1627–1687) said by 1687 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To His Mistress", cited from The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (London: T. Evans, 1770) vol. 2, p. 138.
“If, in the external universe, every event and phenomenon occurs in the precise and often predictable way it would occur if the hypothesis were true, that hypothesis is regarded as the truth, until something occurs which proves it to be in error.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.”
Elizabeth Prentiss (1818–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's true," Carl said, "with a kind of merde-y inner truth which shines forth as the objective correlative of what actually did happen, back home.”
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
Patrick Rothfuss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
Patrick Rothfuss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man, in wearing himself out his whole life long by saying: What is that! and what is that called! and what does that mean! is a big spectacle to himself if he wants to open his eyes. All his natural powers tending towards the truth, he never ceases looking for true names; he senses a language prior to that of Babel, and even of Eden.”
Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science and religion, then, are competitors in the business of finding out what is true about our universe. In this goal religion has failed miserably, for its tools for discerning “truth” are useless. These areas are incompatible in precisely the same way, and in the same sense, that rationality is incompatible with irrationality.”
Jerry Coyne (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True heroism is alike positive and progressive. It sees in right the duty which should dominate, and in truth the principle which should prevail. And hence it never falters in the faith that always and everywhere sin must be repressed, and righteousness exalted.”
John McClellan Holmes (1834–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I like best is the kind of complicated messed up truth, you know … the one that's so imperfect that you know it's true.”
Miranda July (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The issues revolve around experiences of truth and fairness but also address the practice of having choices forced upon you as opposed to freely making your own based on true-to-the-moment information instead of calculated misinformation.”
Aberjhani (born 1957) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (from 2012 essay Catching Up with Our Humanity).
“You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.”
Parmenides (515–470 BC) said by 470 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now what should be the relation between science and spirituality? It should be a relation of mutual acceptance and true understanding. It is an act of folly on our part to expect the same truth, the same knowledge and the same power from both science and spirituality. We must not do that. Neither must we set up the same goal for science and spirituality.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True readers … are ready to go through a whole volume, if there be but hope of finding in it a single genuine thought or the mere suggestion even of a truth which has some fresh application to life.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When it all comes down I hope it doesn't land on you When the truth is found I hope it will be true to you. All I'm sayin' is have a nice day I hope it doesn't rain on your parade An' when it all comes down I hope it doesn't land on you.”
Hoyt Axton (1938–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post, (2015-03-03)
“The very purpose of the First Amendment is to foreclose public authority from assuming a guardianship of the public mind through regulating the press, speech and religion. In this field, every person must be his own watchman for truth, because the forefathers did not trust any government to separate the true from the false for us.”
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thomas v. Collins, 323 U.S. 516 (1945) p. 323 U. S. 545