T Quotes
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“Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.”
“Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.”
“Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty.”
“Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.”
“Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.”
“Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.”
Source: Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough
“Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.”
“Truth is a great flirt.”
Source: The Letters of Franz Liszt to Olga Von Meyendorff, 1871-1886, in the Mildred Bliss Collection at Dumbarton Oaks
“Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.”
Source: An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern
“Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.”
“Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.”
“Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.”
“Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.”
Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four
“truth is a letter from courage!”
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
“Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Truth is a mirror; those who fear their reflection break it.”
“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".”
“Truth is a naked and open daylight”
Source: Bacon's Essays
“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure”
Source: The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu
“Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.”
“Truth is a necessary phantom.”
“Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).”
Source: Being and Event
“Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself”
“Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.”
“Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.”
“Truth is a pathless land.”
“Truth is a point of view about things.”
“Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.”
“Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“Truth is a powerful weapon ... We must be careful how we use it." (Quote by Spottedleaf, page 5)”
“Truth is a preexistent reality that transcends our authorship, is untouched by the dictates of our interpretations, is invincible in the face of the most ingeniously crafted lies, and exceeds the duration of our existence. And if we dared to hold all of our cherished beliefs against such a penetrating standard, how often would we find ourselves left with nothing but the standard?”
“Truth is a priceless treasure, but worthless if buried. Value simplicity. Pause to smell a rose, preferably planted by your hand, for it will smell sweeter. Toil builds character; heartache tests our fortitude. The key to happiness is forgiveness, forgiving ourselves most of all.”
Source: Westland
“Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.”
Source: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
“Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.”
“Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.”
“Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.”
“Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.”
Source: The Wolf Gift
“Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.”
Source: Chandos: A Novel
“Truth is a saint. Pride is a sinner. Curiosity is a scholar. Love is a sage.”
“Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.”
“Truth is a seed that falls underground and one day it will emerge to reveal its beauty.”
“Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.”
Source: Fact and Fiction
“Truth is a singular, unwavering light, not a mere echo of collective whims. The joy lies in the solitary pursuit of objective reality, not in the comfortable company of shared delusions.”
“Truth is a stairway to knowledge,
existence is a highway to understanding;
together they are an elevator to experience.
Need is a stairway to want,
desire is a highway to action;
together they are an elevator to destiny.
Peace is a stairway to knowledge,
compassion is a highway to harmony;
together they are an elevator to world peace.
Books are a stairway to education,
awareness is a highway to understanding;
together they are an elevator to enlightenment.
Sleep is a stairway to rest,
life is a highway to death;
together they are an elevator to eternity.
Light is a stairway to God,
virtue is a highway to Heaven;
together they are an elevator to divinity.”
“Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.”
Source: How to Stop Time
“Truth is a sword, and only those willing to bleed for it should dare to wield it.”
Source: If Nietzsche Wrote Meditations: Think Fight Club Vibes for The Self-Improvement Fanatic.
“Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.”
Source: Confessions of a sex kitten