John Milton Quotes about Truth

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

John Milton

Truth, Way, Walks

John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.52

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

John Milton

Truth, Tolerance, Religion

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

John Milton

Inspirational, Truth, Impossible

John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.173

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

John Milton

Strength, Truth, Wind

Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

John Milton

Truth, Ignorance, Eye

John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.387

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

John Milton

Dream, Truth, Distance

John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.210

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

John Milton

Truth, Encounters, Truth And Falsehood

Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

John Milton

Truth, Father, Stones

John Milton (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Milton. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.]”, p.574

Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

John Milton

Wise, Truth, Heart

John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.46, BookCaps Study Guides

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

John Milton

Truth, Integrity, Men

John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.489

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

John Milton

Truth, Science, Water

John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.183