Truth Quotes - Page 97
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 6
Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.399, A&C Black
Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.
Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.92, Bloomsbury Publishing
A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
Steve Martin (1997). “L.A. Story: And, Roxanne : Two Screenplays”, p.126, Grove Press
TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 1, 2005), 2005–2015.
"Creusa". Play by Sophocles, fragment 323,
Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books
Simon Greenleaf (1846). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.21
An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.
Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.53, Univ of California Press
1763 Of sceptics. Remark, 21 Jul. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.