Definition of truth

"truth" in the noun sense

1. truth

a fact that has been verified

"at last he knew the truth"

"the truth is that he didn't want to do it"

2. truth, the true, verity, trueness

conformity to reality or actuality

"they debated the truth of the proposition"

"the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"

"he was famous for the truth of his portraits"

"he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"

3. truth, true statement

a true statement

"he told the truth"

"he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"

4. accuracy, truth

the quality of being near to the true value

"he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"

"the lawyer questioned the truth of my account"

5. Truth, Sojourner Truth

United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

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Quotations for truth

Seek the truth. [ Proverb ]

Truth alone wounds. [ Napoleon ]

Trust begets truth. [ Proverb ]

Truth without fear. [ Motto ]

Truth may be blamed,
But cannot be shamed. [ Proverb ]

Truth fears no trial. [ Proverb ]

Truth never grows old. [ Proverb ]

Truth seeks no corners. [ Proverb ]

Truth fears no colours. [ Proverb ]

Truth loves to go naked. [ Proverb ]

Truth is God's daughter. [ Proverb ]

The truth in masquerade. [ Byron ]

Truth loves open dealing. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]

To truth belongs freedom. [ Richter ]

Truth conquers all things. [ Motto ]

Stronger than steel
Is the sword of the spirit;
Swifter than arrows
The life of the truth is;
Greater than anger
Is love, and subdueth. [ Longfellow ]

Justice is truth in action. [ Joubert ]

Truth is the child of time. [ Proverb ]

The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting. [ Jonson ]

Truth makes the devil blush. [ Proverb ]

Time is the herald of truth. [ Cicero ]

Truth is in thing, not word;
In meaning, not in manner. [ Robert Browning ]

Hell is truth seen too late. [ H. G. Adams ]

Every error is truth abused. [ Bossuet ]

Argument is not always truth. [ Kossuth ]

Doubt is the shadow of truth. [ Bailey ]

Truth and oil are ever above. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Better you perish than truth. [ Proverb ]

Light is the symbol of truth. [ Lowell ]

The truth shall make you free. [ Jesus ]

Justice is simple, truth easy. [ Lycurgus ]

Truth is the daughter of Time. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom is only found in truth. [ Goethe ]

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt, I love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Children and fools tell truth. [ Proverb ]

Let there be truth between us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Silence is the mother of truth. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon. [ Butler ]

Truth hath always a sure bottom. [ Proverb ]

Simplicity is the seal of truth. [ Boerhaave ]

Thou must be true thyself.
If thou the truth wouldst teach;
The soul must overflow if thou
Another's soul wouldst reach; [ Horatius Bonar ]

Shall Error in the round of time
Still father Truth? [ Tennyson ]

Principle is a passion for truth. [ Hazlitt ]

Truth and ceremony are two things. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

Face to face, the truth comes out. [ Proverb ]

Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view. [ Gay ]

Truth in its own essence cannot be
But good. [ Byron ]

Past all shame, so past all truth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Truth will bear
Neither rude handling, nor unfair
Evasion of its wards, and mocks
Whoever would falsely enter there. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

How happy is he born or taught,
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armor is his honest thought
And simple truth his utmost skill! [ Sir Henry Wotton ]

Fiction is the microscope of truth. [ Lamartine ]

God is truth, and light His shadow. [ Plato ]

Death is a mighty, universal truth. [ Dickens ]

But they whom truth and wisdom lead
Can gather honey from a weed. [ Cowper ]

Tell a lie, and find out the truth. [ Proverb ]

Gossips quarrel and tell the truth. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. [ Gilfillan ]

Truth's best ornament is nakedness. [ Proverb ]

Speak the truth and shame the devil. [ Proverb ]

In too much disputing truth is lost. [ French Proverb ]

Death is delightful. Death is dawn -
The waking from a weary night
Of fevers unto truth and light. [ Joaquin Miller ]

Hail mildly, pleasing solitude.
Companion of the wise and good,
But from whose holy, piercing eye,
The herds of fools and villains fly;
Oh! how I love with thee to walk,
And listen to thy whispered talk,
Which innocence and truth imparts,
And meets the most obdurate hearts. [ Thomson ]

Mother's truth keeps constant youth. [ Proverb ]

Truth, severe by fairy fiction drest. [ Gray ]

Within the oyster's shell uncouth
The purest pearl may hide,
Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
Within that rough outside. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Adversity is the first path to truth. [ Byron ]

Truth is the sun of the intelligence. [ Vauvenargues ]

Of a truth men are mystically united. [ Carlyle ]

Truth is the skeleton of appearances. [ A. de Musset ]

Count it a crime to let a truth slip. [ Robert Browning ]

Truth, or clothed or naked let it be. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

It is the truth that irritates a man. [ Italian Proverb ]

Science is but an image of the truth. [ Bacon ]

Error is but the shadow of the truth. [ Stillingfleet ]

Error is always more busy than truth. [ Hosea Ballou ]

God blesses still the generous thought
And still the fitting word He speeds,
And truth, at His requiring taught,
He quickens into deeds. [ Whittier ]

Now-a-days truth is the greatest news. [ Proverb ]

In excessive altercation truth is lost. [ Publius Syrus ]

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth. [ Pindar ]

Whoe'er has gone thro' London street,
Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,
And how he keeps
Gloating upon a sheep's
Or bullock's personals, as if his own;
How he admires his halves
And quarters - and his calves,
As if in truth upon his own legs grown. [ Hood ]

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

Dark error's other hidden side is truth. [ Victor Hugo ]

The object of the superior man is truth. [ Confucius ]

He that doeth truth cometh to the light. [ St. John ]

Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes. [ Proverb ]

Dull, conceited hashes,
Confuse their brains in college classes;
They gang in stirks, and come oot asses,
Plain truth to speak. [ Burns ]

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth;
Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind;
And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. [ Young ]

Truth and matter of fact have no answers. [ Proverb ]

A truth
Looks freshest in the fashion of the day. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

All truth is not to be told at all times. [ Proverb ]

Master, go on, and I will follow thee
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. [ William Shakespeare ]

No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe. [ Byron ]

Oil and truth will get uppermost at last. [ Proverb ]

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. [ George Eliot ]

Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
The mighty soul how small a body holds. [ Dryden ]

Truth may languish, but can never perish. [ Proverb ]

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. [ Pope ]

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. [ Lowell ]

All that I know is, that the facts I state
Are true as truth has ever been of late. [ Byron ]

Deep subtle wits,
In truth, are master spirits in the world. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove
A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. [ Cowper ]

Truth will be uppermost one time or other. [ Proverb ]

In their looks divine
The image of their glorious Maker shone,
Truth, wisdom, sanctitude serene and pure. [ Milton ]

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap;
Who sows the false will reap the vain;
Erect and sound thy conscience keep,
From hollow words and deeds refrain. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers. [ W. C. Bryant ]

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Truth finds foes where it should find none. [ Proverb ]

Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things. [ Robert Browning ]

The sting of a reproach is the truth of it. [ Proverb ]

Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. [ Keats ]

Truth is truth, in spite of custom's heart. [ Proverb ]

Truth has rough flavors if we bite through. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise.
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares,
The poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. [ Wordsworth ]

Truth will sometimes break out unlooked for. [ Proverb ]

Grief should be the instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. [ Byron ]

And conscience, truth and honesty are made
To rise and fall, like other wares of trade. [ Moore ]

Great is truth, and mighty above all things. [ Apocrypha ]

Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far
To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth? [ Jul. Caes ]

One cannot speak the truth with false words. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Better speak truth rudely than lie covertly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Ornament is but the gilded shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian; beauty, in a word.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. [ William Shakespeare ]

The only amaranthine flower on earth
Is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. [ William Cowper ]

Individuals may perish; but truth is eternal. [ Joseph Gerrald ]

Truth is the highest thing that man can keep. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep.
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. [ William Shakespeare ]

I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
I have sworn thee fair. [ William Shakespeare ]

He is the free man whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides. [ William Cowper ]

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. [ Bailey ]

Old custom without truth is but an old error. [ Proverb ]

Truth is mighty, and will in the end prevail.

O, how much more doth Beauty beauteous seem.
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem,
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. [ William Shakespeare ]

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye,
Men will believe, because they love the lie;
But truth herself, if clouded with a frown,
Must have some solemn proof to pass her down. [ Churchill ]

Amid the woods of Academus to seek for truth. [ Horace ]

'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth.
But the plain single vow that is vowed true. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who never doubted never half believed,
Where doubt, there truth is - 'tis her shadow. [ Bailey ]

Badly is the truth weighed by a corrupt judge. [ Horace ]

Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth. [ Proverb ]

Know then this truth (enough for man to know),
Virtue alone is happiness below. [ Alexander Pope ]

Though a lie may be swift, truth overtakes it. [ Italian Proverb ]

For man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth
More welcome touch his understanding's eye,
Than all the blandishments of sound his ear,
Than all of taste his tongue. [ Akenside ]

His early dreams of good outstripped the truth,
And troubled manhood followed baffled youth. [ Byron ]

Thus was beauty sent from heaven,
The lovely ministress of truth and good,
In this dark world; for truth and good are one,
And beauty dwells in them and they in her
With like participation. [ Akenside ]

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray. [ Goldsmith ]

Truth is the body of God, and light his shadow. [ Plato ]

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. [ Byron ]

Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water's worth:
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,
You'd wish yourself where truth is - in a well. [ Byron ]

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made.
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. [ Cowper ]

Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth. [ Browning ]

In this world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
To sleep for a season and hear no word
Of true love's truth or of light love's art,
Only the song of a secret bird. [ Swinburne ]

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. [ Plato ]

The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort.
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre and make wisdom smile. [ Cowper ]

Truth may lie in laughter, and wisdom in a jest. [ Dr. W. Smith ]

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from
Virtue alone is true nobility! [ Gifford ]

Though malice darken truth, it cannot put it out. [ Proverb ]

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;
Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. [ Joseph Story ]

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

His eloquence is classic in its style,
Not brilliant with explosive coruscations
Of heterogeneous thoughts, at random caught.
And scattered like a shower of shooting stars,
That end in darkness: no; - his noble mind
Is clear, and full, and stately, and serene.
His earnest and undazzled eye he keeps
Fixed on the sun of Truth, and breathes his words
As easily as eagles cleave the air,
And never pauses till the height is won;
And all who listen follow where he leads. [ Mrs. Hale ]

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. [ Chapin ]

Truth is the strong thing. Let man's life be true. [ Robert Browning ]

Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood. [ Danish Proverb ]

He that trusts in a lie shall perish in the truth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Truth may sometimes come out of the devil's mouth. [ Proverb ]

A rusty nail, placed near the faithful compass,
Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. [ Scott ]

All extremes are error.
The reverse of error is not truth, but error still.
Truth lies between these extremes. [ Cecil ]

Truth lies deep, and must be fetched up at leisure. [ Proverb ]

Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth? [ Longfellow ]

Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there
Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere. [ George Herbert ]

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly - but truth survives the flight. [ Bryant ]

Why may a man not speak the truth in a jocular vein? [ Horace ]

Ignorance is less distant from truth than prejudice. [ Diderot ]

In everything truth surpasses its imitation or copy. [ Cicero ]

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind. [ Goethe ]

Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown.
Shall pass on to ages; all about me forgotten.
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a thorny stem. [ Hafiz ]

Truth and honesty have no need of loud protestations. [ Proverb ]

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. [ Proverb ]

Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. [ Proverb ]

The truth works sometimes from without as from within. [ Dr. W. Smith ]

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth - the cowards! [ Joaquin Miller ]

They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]

A truth that one does not understand becomes an error. [ Desbarolles ]

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine, of honor. [ Hare ]

All men naturally have some love and liking for truth. [ Proverb ]

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. [ Ward Beecher ]

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort. [ J. G. Holland ]

In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. [ Diderot ]

Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light. [ Menander ]

Time is precious: but truth is more precious than time. [ Beaconsfield ]

You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space. [ Beecher ]

A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. [ Tennyson ]

Where words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. [ William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act II. Sc.1 ]

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [ Horace ]

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. [ Macaulay ]

Few men have imagination enough for the truth of reality. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

They say, the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. [ William Shakespeare ]

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth. [ Calderon ]

If we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last. [ Emerson ]

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art. [ Octave Feuillet ]

Truth reaches her full action by degrees, and not at once. [ Draper ]

There were such black swans formerly as truth and honesty. [ Proverb ]

Truth is to be loved purely and solely because it is true. [ Carlyle ]

No belief which is contrary to truth can be really useful. [ J. S. Mill ]

A corrupt judge is not qualified to inquire into the truth. [ Horace ]

We give no credit to a liar, even when he speaks the truth. [ Cicero ]

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. [ Lowell ]

'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland
The hand of a woman is often, in youth.
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? [ Lord Lytton ]

God offers to every man his choice between truth and repose. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. [ Thackeray ]

Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. [ Hazlitt ]

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known. [ Ruskin ]

There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult. [ Ségur ]

Accent is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth. [ Rousseau ]

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. [ William Lloyd Garrison ]

Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth! [ Tennyson ]

Authors are martyrs, witnesses to the truth, or else nothing. [ Carlyle ]

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is Experience. [ Bayard Taylor ]

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. [ Emerson ]

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and nothing so strange. [ Danish Webster ]

Do not conceal the truth from confessors, doctors, and lawyers. [ French Proverb ]

Disputations leave truth in the middle, and party at both ends. [ Proverb ]

Gall in mirth is an ill mixture, and sometimes truth is bitter. [ Proverb ]

Truth needs not many words; but a false tale, a large preamble. [ Proverb ]

Every man seeks for truth; but God only knows who has found it. [ Chesterfield ]

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. [ Byron ]

Reason is the test of ridicule - not ridicule the test of truth. [ Warburton ]

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. [ Shaftesbury ]

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth. [ Aristotle ]

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. [ Whipple ]

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. [ Diderot ]

Accent is the soul of language: it gives to it feeling and truth. [ Rousseau ]

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. [ Lowell ]

Truth makes the face of that person shine who speaks and owns it. [ South ]

The credit that is got by a lie only lasts till the truth is out. [ Proverb ]

Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? [ Milton ]

Beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes plainest. [ Sterne ]

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. [ Dr. Johnson ]

To be a fool or knave in print, does but bring the truth to light. [ Proverb ]

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. [ Cicero ]

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. [ Tupper ]

Antiquity cannot privilege an error, nor novelty prejudice a truth. [ Proverb ]

Be mild to others, to thyself severe, - So truth shall shield thee. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]

Truth irritates only those whom it enlightens, but does not convert. [ Pasquier Quesnel ]

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. [ Cyprian ]

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. [ St. Paul ]

Wherever there is a display of art, truth seems to us to be wanting.

On the brink of the waters of life and truth we are miserably dying. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Melancholy is a fearful gift. What is it but the telescope of truth! [ Byron ]

It is possible to sin against charity, when we do not against truth. [ Proverb ]

Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Telling the truth does good to him who hears, harm to him who speaks. [ German Proverb ]

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses a particle of it. [ Thoreau ]

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship at the expense of truth. [ Zimmermann ]

Pleasure can be supported by illusion, but happiness rests upon truth. [ Chamfort ]

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. [ Chapin ]

Truth is the property of no individual, but is the treasure of all men. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. [ De Sales ]

Books, says my Lord Bacon, should have no patrons but truth and reason. [ Colton ]

If I held all of truth in my hand, I would beware of opening it to men. [ Fontenelle ]

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. [ Milton ]

Candor may be considered as a compound of justice and the love of truth. [ T. Abercrombie ]

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. [ Demosthenes ]

You arrive at truth through poetry, and I arrive at poetry through truth. [ Joubert ]

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. [ Landor ]

Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Truth does not conform itself to us, but we most conform ourselves to it. [ M. Claudius ]

Style is the gossamer on which the needs of truth float through the world. [ Bancroft ]

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. [ Keith ]

Truth is too simple for us; we do not like those who unmask our illusions. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance. [ Locke ]

The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love of truth. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Truth does not do as much good in the world as the shows of it do of evil. [ La Roche ]

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. [ Bacon ]

He that does not speak truth to me, does not believe me when I speak truth. [ Proverb ]

Stay till the lane messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. [ Bovee ]

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. [ Roscommon ]

Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. [ South ]

In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice. [ Montaigne ]

What is justice but another form of the reality we love - a truth acted out? [ Carlyle ]

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. [ Carlyle ]

Truth, and a soul that is ready for truth, meet like the fuel and the flame. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Frankness consists in always telling the truth, but not always all the truth.

Truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine. [ Locke ]

He will lie, sir, with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool. [ William Shakespeare ]

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. [ Herbert ]

Truth does not do so much good in the world as the appearance of it does evil. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth. [ Horace ]

No historic event is so important as the advent of a conviction of a now truth. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

The credit that is got by a lie, lasts no longer than till the truth comes out. [ Proverb ]

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [ Tacitus ]

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time. [ Bovee ]

Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its divine origin. [ Beecher ]

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. [ Tuckerman ]

Better is an error that makes us happy than a truth that plunges us into despair.

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned. [ Kazlay ]

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. [ Joubert ]

There is nothing so strong or safe, in any emergency of life, as the simple truth. [ Charles Dickens ]

Truth is strengthened by observation and time, pretences by haste and uncertainty. [ Tacitus ]

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [ La Bruyere ]

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, and teach that truth is truest poesy. [ Cowley ]

Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere to find and value what is good. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed. Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The people of this world having been once deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. [ Hitopadesa ]

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. [ Burke ]

Truth is born with us; and we must do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity. [ St. Evremond ]

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. [ Pope ]

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth His moral law. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

Who would with care some happy fiction frame, so mimics truth it looks the very same. [ Granville ]

Truth will be uppermost one time or another like cork, though kept down in the water. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Verily, O man, with truth for thy theme, eloquence shall throne thee with archangels. [ Tupper ]

The kingdom of poetry is the kingdom of truth; open the sanctuary and there is light. [ A. v. Chamisso ]

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. [ Horace ]

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. [ Landor ]

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

Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth. [ Crabbe ]

Love, pleasure, and inconstancy are but the consequences of a desire to know the truth. [ Duclos ]

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. [ Horace Walpole ]

O nude truth! O true truth! How difficult thou art to find, and how difficult to utter! [ Sainte-Beuve ]

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. [ W. Penn ]

It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. [ Cicero ]

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. [ John Locke ]

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. [ Herbert ]

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. [ Tillotson ]

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love. [ George MacDonald ]

O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, by that sweet ornament which truth doth give! [ Shakespeare ]

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. [ Milton ]

Those are wise who through error press on to truth; those are fools who hold fast by error. [ Rückert ]

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. [ Cicero ]

Men are probably nearer to the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. [ Thoreau ]

A truth to an age that has rejected and trampled on it, is not a word of peace, but a sword. [ Henry George ]

Falsehood is often rocked by truth; but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. [ Colton ]

Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride. [ Swift ]

Thus was beauty sent from heaven, the lovely ministress of truth and good in this dark world. [ Akenside ]

Women never lie more astutely than when they tell the truth to those who do not believe them.

From principles is derived probability; but truth, or certainty, is obtained only from facts.

All nature is a vast symbolism; every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. [ Chapin ]

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. [ Hazlitt ]

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason. [ Johnson ]

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. [ Locke ]

Without the way there is no going; without the truth, no knowing; without the life, no living. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

In mediaeval art, truth is first, beauty second; in modern art, beauty is first, truth second. [ John Ruskin ]

Truth is like God; it reveals itself not directly; we must divine it out of its manifestations. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth of which, alas! gives but little hope of release. [ Democritus ]

Time has been given only for us to exchange each year of our life with the remembrance of truth. [ St. Martin ]

Truth is never learned, in any department of industry, by arguing, but by working and observing. [ John Ruskin ]

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in pleasant garments as well? [ Chamfort ]

Neglected, calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. [ Tacitus ]

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Logic is the essence of truth, and truth is the most powerful tyrant; and tyrants hate the truth. [ I. I. Kozlof ]

Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the minds eye to read its oracles. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. [ Bossuet ]

Truth, such as is necessary to the regulation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought. [ Johnson ]

Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter. [ Diderot ]

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. [ Steele ]

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamour raised by heated partisans. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. [ Colton ]

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field. [ Lowell ]

Never apologize for showing feeling. My friend, remember that when you do so you apologize for truth. [ Beaconsfield ]

Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side. [ Latimer ]

The mistakes of woman result almost always from her faith in the good, and her confidence in the truth. [ Balzac ]

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. [ Cervantes ]

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. [ Carlyle ]

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another thing to wish to be on the side of truth. [ Richard Whately ]

Nature and truth, though never so low or vulgar, are yet pleasing when openly and artlessly represented. [ Pope ]

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. [ Daniel Webster ]

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. [ F. W. Robertson ]

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. [ Lindley Murray ]

I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance. [ Paley ]

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed. [ Joubert ]

The truth we need is only lightly veiled, not deeply buried by the wise hand which has designed it for us. [ Gellert ]

They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood. [ Shenstone ]

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth. [ Seneca ]

Wit is, in general, the finest sense in the world. I had lived long before I discovered that wit was truth. [ Dr. Richard Porson ]

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. [ Samuel Johnson ]

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth. [ Venning ]

The greatest friend of Truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Truth is to be costly to you - of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give. [ John Ruskin ]

It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysics, to behold again the fair face of Truth. [ Carlyle ]

Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul. [ Bancroft ]

Astronomy has revealed the great truth that the whole universe is bound together by one all-pervading influence. [ Leitch ]

Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Truth shines with its own light; it is not by the flames of funeral piles that the minds of men are illuminated. [ Belisarius ]

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Fight valiantly today; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor. [ William Shakespeare ]

A great book that comes from a great thinker, - it is a ship of thought, deep-freighted with truth and with beauty. [ Theodore Parker ]

Weary the path that does not challenge reason. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. [ Coleridge ]

It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. [ Johnson ]

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast which trusted to his truth. [ Byron ]

Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but falsehood gives occasion for the frittering away of time and strength. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Truth is a stronghold, and diligence is laying siege to it; so that it must observe all the avenues and passes to it. [ South ]

Those whom we call the ancients were in truth novices in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind. [ Prescott ]

Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy. He does not like to hear the truth, and he shuns telling it. [ Pascal ]

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood. [ La Fontaine ]

Every man turns his dreams into realities as far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood. [ La Fontaine ]

Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest light of truth. [ Holmes ]

Time, the corrector when our judgments err, the test of truth and love; sole philosopher, for all besides are sophists. [ Byron ]

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

You may set it down as a truth, which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Truth, justice and reason, lose all their force and all their lustre when they are not accompanied by agreeable manners. [ James Thomson ]

The crudest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. [ Emerson ]

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speaks the truth. [ Hazlitt ]

What are you worth today? Not in money, but in brains, heart, purpose, character? Tell yourself the truth about yourself. [ George H. Hepworth ]

In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins all. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held. [ Matthew Arnold ]

To no man, whatever his station in life, or his power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth. [ Burns ]

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. [ Thomas Paine ]

Unless the people can be kept in total darkness, it is the wisest way for the advocates of truth to give them full light. [ Whately ]

Men are atheistical because they are first vicious, and question the truth of Christianity because they bane the practice. [ South ]

I see nothing worth living for but the divine virtue which endures and surrenders all things for truth, duty, and mankind. [ Channing ]

To know; to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic act, of which the best logics can only babble on the surface. [ Carlyle ]

Truth is the only real lasting foundation for friendship, in all but truth there is a principle of decay and dissimulation. [ Miss Helen Edgeworth ]

No great truth is allowed by Nature to be demonstrable to any person who, foreseeing its consequences, desires to refuse it. [ John Ruskin ]

Dissimulation is but faint policy, for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth and to do it. [ Bacon ]

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves. [ Bishop Whately ]

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions. [ Rev. Dr. Sharp ]

Truth is one, forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispositions of the spectator. [ Wendell Phillips ]

All the gazers on the skies read not in fair heaven's story expresser truth or truer glory than they might in her bright eyes. [ Ben Jonson ]

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we and in fiction. [ J. G. Holland ]

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root. [ Colton ]

Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. [ Barrow ]

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. [ Owen Feltham ]

The highest exercise of invention has nothing to do with fiction; but is an invention of new truth, what we can call a revelation. [ Carlyle ]

Praise follows Truth afar off; and only overtakes her at the grave; Plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then. [ Lowell ]

When thou are obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half-way to lying and lying is the whole way to hell. [ William Penn ]

In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is the truth, and in the midst of the truth is the imperishable being. [ The Vedas ]

What the poet has to cultivate above all things is love and truth; - what he has to avoid, like poison, is the fleeting and the false. [ Leigh Hunt ]

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor. [ Washington Allston ]

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature an impossibility. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other. [ W. B. Clulow ]

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremoney are two things. [ Marcus Antonius ]

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth. [ Theodore Parker ]

It would take long to enumerate how great an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated; even the report itself came short of the truth. [ Ovid ]

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth - that is the secret of the fine arts. [ Joubert ]

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. [ Landor ]

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. [ Chapin ]

Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in His universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne. [ E. H. Chapin ]

Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. [ Horace Mann ]

The discovery of truth by slow, progressive meditation is talent. Intuition of the truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. [ Lavater ]

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. [ Addison ]

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls. [ Lowell ]

Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. [ Chapin ]

Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. [ Longfellow ]

Truth, like the Venus de Medici, will pass down in thirty fragments to posterity; but posterity will collect and recompose them into a goddess. [ Richter ]

We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jeffersonian vulgarity. [ Bishop Henry C. Potter ]

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. [ Tillotson ]

The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine. [ Locke ]

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. [ Horace Greeley ]

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity. [ Rev. T. Binney ]

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. [ Macaulay ]

Intellectual fairness is often only another name for indolence and inconclusiveness of mind, just as love of truth is sometimes a fine phrase for temper. [ J. Morley ]

Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess. [ Landor ]

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that are in them what were we? [ Leigh Hunt ]

Truth is vanishing from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by. The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as ever, but they are no longer faithful. [ Heine ]

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. [ Lavater ]

Immortality o'ersweeps all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peals, like the eternal thunder of the deep, into my ears this truth: Thou livest forever! [ Byron ]

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words. [ Johnson ]

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced: never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind. [ Theodore Parker ]

What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is that they reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring if it be useful truth. [ Sydney Smith ]

Polished steel will not shine in the dark; no more can reason, however refined, shine efficaciously, but as it reflects the light of Divine truth, shed from heaven. [ Foster ]

It is equally dangerous to believe and to disbelieve; therefore search diligently into the truth rather than suffer an erroneous impression to pervert your judgment. [ Phaedr ]

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon. [ Coleridge ]

Literature consists of all the books--and they are not many--where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form. [ John Morley ]

Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents. [ Colton ]

Fortitude is not the appetite of formidable things, nor inconsult rashness, but virtue fighting for a truth, derived from knowledge of distinguishing good or bad causes. [ Nabb ]

Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. [ Tillotson ]

The fool maintains an error with the assurance of a man who can never be mistaken: the sensible man defends a truth with the circumspection of a man who may be mistaken. [ De Bruix ]

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth. [ Schiller ]

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. [ Bacon ]

Truth may work mightily though in the hand of the sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful alone the casket constitutes the jewel (the vessel makes the content). [ Friedrich Schiller ]

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. [ Emerson ]

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. [ John Locke ]

With vivid words your just conceptions grace. Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain. [ Pindar ]

Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship. [ William Ellery Channing ]

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted in the memory, they nourish the will. [ Joubert ]

There are few things more singular than the blindness which, in matters of the highest importance to ourselves, often hides the truth that is plain as noon to all other eyes. [ Rev. Dr. Croly ]

Every man may be, and at some time is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood he strings words like beads upon his thought. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit. [ Moses Harvey ]

They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt. [ Cowper ]

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and unquestionable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence. When firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. [ Joseph Joubert ]

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it is not the truth that he is speaking? If an eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? [ Carlyle ]

It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another. [ Tillotson ]

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts. [ Newton ]

Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection. [ Dugald Stewart ]

Pray for and work for fullness of life above everything; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart. [ Phillips Brooks ]

The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates. [ Moses Harvey ]

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. Get a reputation and then go to bed, is the absurdest of all maxims. Keep up a reputation or go to bed, would be nearer the truth. [ Chapin ]

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever does or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes. [ Carlyle ]

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world. [ Goethe ]

O brave poets! keep back nothing, nor mix falsehood with the whole; look up Godward; speak the truth in worthy song from earnest soul; hold, in high poetic duty, truest truth the fairest beauty! [ Mrs. Browning ]

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth. [ Tupper ]

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon. [ Lavater ]

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them. [ Phillips Brooks ]

The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the death of eminent persons and of their behavior in that dreadful season. [ Addison ]

Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences. [ Whewell ]

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence. [ Spurgeon ]

Not only so, but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. [ Whewell ]

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. [ Bulwer ]

Friendship has steps which lead up on the throne of God, through all spirits, even to the Infinite; only love is satiable, and like truth admits no three degrees of comparison; and a single being fills the heart. [ Richter ]

Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth; and eloquence a gift of the mind, which makes us master of the heart and spirit of others; which enables us to inspire them with, or persuade them of whatever we please. [ Bruyere ]

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. [ Madame Swetchine ]

To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big thing. This is truth, to me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The poets fabulously fancied that the giants scaled heaven by heaping mountain upon mountain. What was their fancy is the gospel truth. If you would get to heaven you must climb thither by putting Mount Sion upon Mount Sinai. [ Bishop Hopkins ]

There are persons who flatter themselves that the size of their works will make them immortal. They pile up reluctant quarto upon solid folio, as if their labors, because they are gigantic, could contend with truth and heaven! [ Junius ]

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. [ Colton ]

Poetry, like truth, is a common flower. God has sown it over the earth like daisies, sprinkled with tears, or glowing in the sun, even as he places the crocus and the March frosts together, and beautifully mingles life and death. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who is calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering. [ Channing ]

Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness. [ J. S. Mill ]

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation. [ Lowell ]

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

O Truth! pure and sacred virgin, when wilt thou be worthily revered? O Goddess who instructs us, why didst thou put thy palace in a well? When will our learned writers, alike free from bitterness and from flattery, faithfully teach us life? [ Voltaire ]

He is a treacherous supplanter and underminer of the peace of all families and societies. This being a maxim of an unfailing truth, that nobody ever pries into another man's concerns but with a design to do, or to be able to do him a mischief. [ South ]

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! [ Dewey ]

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant. [ Hazlitt ]

To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love. [ Hazlitt ]

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment. [ Carlyle ]

Exaggeration is neither thoughtful, wise, nor safe; it is a proof of the weakness of the understanding, or the want of discernment of him that utters it, so that even when he speaks the truth, he soon finds it is received with large discount, or utter unbelief. [ W. B. Kinney ]

Never to speak by superlatives is a sign of a wise man; for that way of speaking wounds either truth or prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation; because they discover the weakness of understanding, and the bad discerning of him that speaks. [ J. Earle ]

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]

What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe! [ Pascal ]

Just as a tested and rugged virtue of the moral hero is worth more than the lovely, tender, untried innocence of the child, so is the massive strength of a soul that has conquered truth for itself worth more than the soft peach-bloom faith of a soul that takes truth on trust. [ F. E. Abbot ]

Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth. [ Landor ]

Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force. [ Colton ]

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not, as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture. [ Carlyle ]

There is a sort of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in exaggeration; their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. [ Hume ]

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of commonsense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. Labor, he in effect said, is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. Turning then to another - And you, I inquired, what do you consider as the great force in art? Love, he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. [ Bovee ]

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them, - that it was a vain endeavor? [ Thoreau ]

Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers, - they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners and things that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. [ Mary Wortley Montagu ]

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite. [ Victor Cousin ]

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. [ Addison ]

There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]

Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty concur in maintaining that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, written fiction - is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the Wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. [ Heroidotus ]

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. [ Tillotson ]

truth in Scrabble®

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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truth in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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