Truth Quotes - Page 109

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!

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.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully pursue The policy of truth

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

Truth is the best defense.

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

Veiling truth in mystery.

My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters.

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.