T Quotes
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“Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.”
“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
Source: The fall
“Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.”
“Truth, like love, is never absolute.”
“Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.”
Source: The Middle Kingdom: Poems, 1929-1944
“Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.”
“Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.”
Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles
“Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.”
“Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.”
Source: Seven Gothic Tales
“Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.”
“Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Truth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'!”
“Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.”
“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”
Source: The Man in the High Castle
“Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
“Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.”
“Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.”
“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”
“Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.”
“Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.”
Source: Homeland: The Legend of Drizzt
“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
“Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.”
“Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.”
“Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.”
“Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.”
“Truth, which is simple and one, admits of no variety.”
“Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.”
“Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.”
“Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.”
Source: Gottschalk and the grande tarantelle
“Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.”
Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
“Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.”
“Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.”
“Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.”
Source: The Help
“Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.”
Source: Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.”
“Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.”
“Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies." ~ Angelica Hopes
~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You”
“Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’”
“Truthful inconvenience is one of my specialties.”
“Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.”
“Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.”
“Truthfully, I thought some of Robert's outfits a tad too daring. The necklines on some of his shirts plunged further south than those sported by a courtesan from the continent. He owned more patterned scarves than any sensible man ever should.”
Source: With a Reckless Abandon
“Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense”
“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
Source: Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence