Truth

In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Witness at all times. If necessary, use words. St.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

One should stick by one’s own soul, and by nothing else. In one’s soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one’s own soul-knowledge, one is the worst of traitors.

WHAT DRAWS PEOPLE TO BE FRIENDS IS THAT THEY SEE THE SAME TRUTH. THEY SHARE IT.

He said likewise That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

 

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

 

La vérité est en marche; rien ne peut plus l’arrêter .

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

The essay simply represents an artistic standpoint, and in aesthetic criticism attitude is everything. For in art there is no such thing as a universal truth. A Truth in art is that whose contradictory is also true.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It isabout simple awareness—awareness of what isso real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: “This is water, this is water.”