Saturday, 27 April 2019

Truth - Quotes

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle lights. - Francis Bacon

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. - Unknown

Truth is both arms and armour. - Edward Counsel

Truth is always hidden like a shadow in darkness. - Unknown

Truth is always strange – stranger than fiction. - George Byron

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. - Matthew Arnold

Truth sometimes like stab of cruel knife. - Charlie Chan

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. - Mencius

Truth wears an unchanging countenance. - Edward Counsel

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. - W. Clement Stone

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. - Bishop Robert South

Truth will only make you unpopular. - Wolfgang Borchert

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light. - George Washington

Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. - H. L. Mencken

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. - Ursula K Le Guin

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. - Leo Tolstoy 

Truth, like good medicine, is oftentimes repugnant to our present feelings, but gives vigour afterwards. - Edward Counsel

Truth, like oil, will in time rise to surface. - Charlie Chan

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 its excess. - Walter Savage Landor

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured, but, like the sun, only for a time. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things. - Augustus Hare

Truths kindle light for truths. - Lucretius

Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes – never! - Mikhail Bulgakov

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