Imaginary Discussion Thread on: Truths

To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
- John Locke

Indeed, the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
- John Stuart Mill

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Thoreau

Man’s passion for the truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
- Antonio Machado

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
- Albert Camus

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine

Truth is the child of time.
- John Ford

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.
- Isak Dinesen

Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
- Cyril Connolly

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
- William Penn

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.
- Publilius Syrus

We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
- Pascal

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic act, of which the best logics can but babble on the surface.
- Thomas Carlyle

Truth seems to come with its final word; and the final word gives birth to its next.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
- Albert Camus

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
- Saint Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which in ineluctable.
- Saint Exupery

All necessary truth is its own evidence.
- Emerson

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The truth, my friends, is not eloquent, except unspoken; its vast shadow lends eloquence to our sparks of thought as they die into it.

- George Santayana

Deep truth is imageless.
- Shelley

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

- Andre Gide